ANTH 227 Study Guide - Malaria, Biomedicine, Schistosomiasis
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1920s concensus reached on scholars about 3 things: 1) the method fieldwork and participant observation (malinowski, 2) a theoretical framework or conceptual paradigm for organizig and comparing field data primitive forms of western culture diffusions who believed cultural differences as a product of diffusion of ancestral religions, 3) empirical object of study (fill in, anthropology was the management of otherness, particularly in the colonies and at home, looking to growing industrialization and peasant classes in the metrapole, ex: australian land claims and anthropology. Evans pritchard (1902 1973: he did fieldwork among the azande and nuer tribes of southern sudan, documentary: how do we understand rationality when we don"t understand it in our own scientific minds, george foster (1914 2006, one of the founders of medical anthro in the us, worked in mexico in the community of tzintzuntzan, the former capital of the pre columbian tarascan, he"s known for 3 things, the idea of limited good.
