ANTHRO 134A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Terminalia Ferdinandiana, Medical Anthropology, Ethnomedicine
7 Dec 2016
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Kleinman: classified healing activities into three sectors: popular sector: where healing depends on a general body of knowledge available to everyone. Ex: if you have a sore throat, go get cough drops, drink some tea, drink lots of fluids. This is something that is known to everyone. This type of pairing happens within families and is gendered. Usually the mother or the grandma are the ones suggesting these things: professional sector: healing carried out by persons with specialized training and specialized knowledge: ex: biomedical physicians, chiropractor. This is care that is done by people who have a certificate: folk sector: intermediate between the popular and professional sector; healing carried out by non-professional specialists. They have more knowledge or more expertise than someone on the street but no certificate. They have some sort of non-formal education: however, remember that the boundaries among these sectors aren"t set. We cannot say that something is entirely professional or entirely folk.
