ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnomedicine
26 Feb 2014
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Seek to discover the ways languages are different from each other c. structural linguistics: explores how language works: compares grammatical patterns/other linguistic elements d. sociolinguistics: interested in both how language is used to define social groups and how belonging in groups leads to specialized language use e. historical linguistics: concentrates on comparison and classification of different languages to discern historical links among languages. Religious issues: ramadan was about to start, he told the doctor he was feeling day by day and he planned to fast the whole month, but this is a bad idea, but he says that he is going to fast, he believes if he is to be cured it is because allah says so, he also believes that allah has given him this disease as a life experience and lesson, doctors are not sure they are interpreting his feelings correctly.
