ANTH 4160 Lecture 4: Lecture Outline- January 31, 2017 (Moodle FINAL COPY)
7 Feb 2017
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Joint down key points and themes: two or three. Things you don"t agree with, things you really did. Lecture 3: colonialism and post-colonialism- health impacts: the production of disease and illness. What do medical anthropologists look at when they analyze aboriginal health in the pre and post-colonial periods?medical anthropology unequal. Have to take evidence with a grain of salt. Critical medical anthropology- unequal power relations, historical processes, structural violence. Archeologists who try to understand lesions on bones, and try to understand them in a larger context. Interpretive medical anthropological approaches- cultural constructions of health and illness; different explanatory models for disease/illness: health of indigenous peoples in canada. Product of psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors all working in syngery. The health of indigenous peoples of canada is an example of the convergence of these factors. Meaning, you cannot only use one thing to understand it, you need to look at all of them: health in pre-contact society.
