HLTB42H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Franz Boas

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Foundations of medical anthropology lecture notes 2015-09-03 10: The holistic (different aspects combined) study of humanity. 5th field: medical study of disease, illness and healing using anthropological approaches. The method of choice in social cultural anthropology. It is the comprehensive written account of a group: organizing all the data about day-to-day living that an anthropologist collects over months and years of field work. Hallmark of ethnography: range of approaches. Advantages of structured interviews: if interviewing a lot of participants: flexible (serendipity, thick description (clifford geertz) What people say they do, what they plan to do and what they actually do. Describing something as much as possible from all angles: the ethnographer (positionality) Your position as a researcher is crucial to the types of research you are going to collect. Refers to the ways anthropologists observe and evaluate. Unidirectional vs. dialogical: unidirectional researcher looks at others and reports them to people, dialogical exchange between researcher and observed.