ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: The Two Cultures, Anne Fadiman, Kalahari Desert
5 Mar 2018
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Anth 1120: making sense of a changing world: anthropology today (winter term 2018) Lecture 5: medical systems i: shamanism and divination. They are against things like sugergy and they are skeptical of medical medicine. In the article you getting that they are getting different healing system. Exist in nomadic foraging, simple horticultural, sedentary forager and intensive horticultural societies (chiefdoms) We may be it practice in small groups and wen people immigrants they bring their traditions with them. We have to careful when we say that the practice only happens in one location in, Origins of the term the term itself have been associated with the tungus a reindeer herding group in siberia. It is not a part time job, people dedicate lots of time to it. A label for a religious healer which is in direct contact with the supernatural realm. A deeply rooted traditional system for healing and solving personal and community problems.
