ANTHRO 2A Study Guide - Final Guide: Fulton Fish Market, Espresso, Lasagne
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Who are the nacirema: they are americans. How does this article make the familiar unfamiliar: going to the dentist, bathroom is a private ritual , takes things that are familiar and make it unfamiliar. The mindful body: a prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology. The body is the first and most natural took of man marcel mauss. Both physical and mind would be yoga. Doctors for the physical body and psychiatrists for the mental disordered. Breathing problems is a physical conditions so the doctor checks for his lung pressure, his heart rate, etc. When the mother gives the child milk. We tend to think that left is bad and right is good . Being right handed is assumed because everything made in the word is for right handed people (the structure that we write with is left to right, doorknobs, etc: example: body as machine. We did not think of the body as a machine until the industrial.
