HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Enamel Hypoplasia, Zooplankton, Hypoplasia

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Lecture 2: biocultural perspectives on health (critical medical anthropology: anthropologists do play a big role in public health especially epidemiology, traditionally focused on western cultures but there has been a shift to understand epidemiology in non-western cultures. Based on social, cultural environment as well as the changes in one"s life (physiological or psycho-social health: greater stress can lead to greater susceptibility, historical contingency= how medical histories/pasts play a current role in. Your susceptibility to disease, physiological and psycho-social health. Determines if one person or not has access to health. Structural violence= social stratification and is entirely rigid (i. e. the caste system in india) 2005:756: over time there has been greater parasitism. Egalitarian way of life during hunter-gatherer time. Grains that can be grown in surplus; eliminates the need to move around. Health is impacted from living much closer now: agriculture, sedentism, and population increase, when settled and concentrated on farming (animals, irrigation)

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Please need help for Multiple-Choice

22. Physical anthropologists are interested in

a. how and why the physical traits of contemporary humans vary.

b. reconstructing the evolutionary record of all forms of life.

c. reconstructing the evolutionary record of all humans.

d. a and c only

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23. Paleopathology

a. is a primary focus of research in linguistic anthropology.

b. is the analysis of disease in ancient populations.

c. examines language from the time period before the invention of writing.

d. is the analysis of disease in contemporary populations.

24. Ethnocentrism is the belief that

a. oneâs culture is no better or no worse than any other.

b. other cultures are inferior to oneâs own.

c. other cultures are superior to oneâs own.

d. to understand another cultural feature, you must look at it from within its proper cultural context.

25. Historical archaeology

a. deals with that vast segment of the human record prior to writing.

b. analyzes the first stone tools used by humans.

c. contributes significantly to our understanding of colonial American cultures.

d. none of the above

26. Ecofacts are

a. objects found in the natural environment that were used by people but not made or altered by them.

b. objects that have been made by people and are portable.

c. objects that have been made by people but are not portable.

d. objects found in the natural environment that were formed by natural occurrences such as exposure to great heat or cold.

27. Which statement about applied anthropology is false?

a. It is considered by some to be the fifth sub-branch of anthropology.

b. All four fields of anthropology have applied components.

c. The author of this textbook takes a strong stance against applied anthropology

d. In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the percentage of applied anthropologists in the discipline of anthropology.

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From Exploring Medical Anthropology (Joralemon, 2009:29). Why are epidemics useful at illustrating "interconnections between biological, social, and cultural components in the human experience of disease"

What is an example of biocultural evolution? Or in other words, what is a biological adaption resulting from cultural practices? Explain how it works.

Include terms: Natural selection, species, mutation, fitness, anthropogenic

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HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Enamel Hypoplasia, Zooplankton, Hypoplasia

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