ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Social Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Propitiation
5 Mar 2018
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Due to the natural processes (to cause- effect relations of natural phenomena) Natural treatment of specific illness, disease or injury. Research based on library and museum collections. Comparative aspects of primitive" medicine and surgery in the. Healing ideas and traditions reflect the wider cultural traditions of the societies in which they develop; reinforce cultural values. Explanatory rationality: witchcraft and all medical knowledge explains not just how but why someone gets ill. Highlights the relationship between society, social sanctions and illness as an integrated whole. History of medical anthropology: the culture and personality movement of the 1930s and 1940s, with collaboration between psychiatrists and anthropologists. Asked questions about relationships between adult personality, character and the social environment ( nature versus nurture : important movements. Medical ecology- emphasizes the environmental context of health- study of human adaptation to harsh physical environments (adaptation to material world)
