ANTH 202 Lecture 2: Lecture #2
9 Sep 2016
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Healing = the suffer-de ned resolution of the sickness experience and the medically de ned overcoming of disease. The case of the cannibal curse : they would eat the brains of their deceased loved ones, and that cultural practice spread the disease, cross-cultural birthing practices. Gave birth on their own below a tree: reduced infection, cross-cultural medicine. Medical pluralism = the coexistence of multiple medical treatments within cultures. Sociocultural perspective (1950s-1970s: the biological realm is considered through the prism of cultural knowledge, structural-functionism = idea that human behavior meets a variety of biological, material, community, emotional, and spiritual needs. Biocultural perspective (1950s-present: bridging the cultural and biological realities of life into one perspective. Emphasizes evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, and cultural adaptation: ex. tuberculosis requires both biological and cultural viewpoints.
