ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pink Ribbon, Eclampsia, Maternal Death
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Lecture 2 - making the strange familiar: illness experience and. Basic premise of anthropology is making the strange familiar and the familiar strange : taking something different or something we don"t understand and working towards understanding it and making it the same. For example; public displays of affection between homosexual couples in the 80s and 90s was shocking yet opened the doors to discussion on homosexual health. Das and das: make meaning out of illness experiences in the context of socialities and. Berry: safe motherhood campaign is attempting to transform mayan women"s subjectivities, from relational to autonomous. Anthropologists aim to challenge assumptions that neural chemistry is the same across all people, or experience of illness, etc. Someone"s own understanding of his or her place in the world ( ) an individual"s internal processes, dispositions, or understandings, as opposed to other people"s judgments or attributions about an individual berry.
