ANT208H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Electronic Body Music, Folate Deficiency, Upper Paleolithic
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What is anthropology: discipline that investigates the nature that causes of human variation and those aspects of life that are common to all of humanity. It is the study of people : franz boas a geographic worker in the arctic advocated systematic and long-term. Eldwork as a way of understanding people of different culture. The development of medical anthropology: during ww2 growing employment of anthropologists to gather info on health and nutrition of populations in the us, creation of world health organization in. 1948, anthropologists were hired to break down cultural barriers: george foster, a founding gure, demonstrated the utility of anthological knowledge to enhance health intervention, medical anthropology is centered around 2 things: ethnomedicine and international health. The cultural concept: culture is the beliefs, values, practices and traditions of a group. The body is the only environment for understanding the disease: anthropology started as colonialism began and studying other people turned from being really racist to cultural relativism.
