I A STD 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Popol Vuh, Ethnography, World Health Organization
22 Apr 2018
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Demographic, socio-economic, ethnic, religious, linguistic and artistic diversity. Latin - coined by mid 1800"s french who thought roman language speaking peoples would dominate region. Us: economic ties: trading partners, oil and other raw resources. Political connections-revolution, dictatorship, calm and upheavals all affect us foreign policy. Large latin america important population in us. Economically: large gaps between rich and poor; prosperous and poor. Anthropology: the holistic and comparative study of people or humankind. Focus is on the diversity of cultures throughout the world. The background of translator plays an important role in the translation process. Anthropology = study of people : origins, present. The study of health and illness in societies cross-culturally. Biocultural: human biological variation, history of heath evolution and medicine. Cultural: belief and ethnomedical systems, social construction of illness and health, healers in cross-cultural perspective. Shared ideas, meaning,values usually passed on from generation to generation. Patterns of behavior guided by these shared beliefs, meanings and values.
