ANTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Medical Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Cultural Appropriation
6 Jan 2018
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An introduction to health and illness: the anthropology of health and illness, medical anthropology, life in the texas colonias. How can anthropologists help solve health care problems: creating a public health system in rural haiti, connecting kuru and cannibalism in papua new guinea. Why does the distribution of health and illness mirror that of wealth and power: health transition and critical medical anthropology, staff attitudes affect health care delivery. How is globalization changing the experience of health and illness in the practice of. Medicine: medical migration, multiple systems of healing: colliding cultures, bridging cultural divides. Art, power, and authenticity: cultural value versus market. Art in human history: paleolithic cave paintings in europe, ancient graf ti of pompeii, graf ti art. The anthropology of art: fine art vs. popular art, considering aesthetics across cultures: universal gaze, beyond primitive art, art is expressive culture. Expressive culture is creative representations, behaviors and beliefs related to art and leisure.
