ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Biomedical Sciences, Malaria Vaccine, Androcentrism
19 Mar 2013
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Modern medicine, scientific based medicine with a background in traditional approaches to the body and from english and british backgrounds. Biomedicine as a major knowledge institution and as a way of understanding what is considered. Brief history of anthropology and the shift away from evolutionary thinking to the fieldwork method and culture concept. The evolutionary theory man the hunter drew its inspiration from pre-existing social and cultural beliefs about the differences between men and women: excludes women from any contributions to society and the functioning of family structures. Evolutionary and animal models create universalizing narratives about human nature that: minimize the role of culture and society. Ignore human diversity: project dominant, androcentric ideas into the past. Science is a social endeavour which takes much for granted as natural and it sees its own common sense in animals. Other theories: string revolution, ethnographic analogy, man the scavenger.
