ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bride Price, Status Symbol, Medicalization

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Influenced by beliefs about life, death and the hereafter. Death is an enfeebled form of life. Traditional medical view lack of respiration, pulse and heartbeat. The harvard criteria for death: unreceptive and unresponsive, no spontaneous movement or respiration, no reflexes, a flat eeg (electrical activity in the brain, no circulation to or within the brain. Status symbol to die under medical care. Doctor(cid:495)s presence at the deathbed was rare (cid:498)natural death(cid:499) death at the end of a long life as the result of a clinically. )n many cultures death is (cid:494)unclean(cid:495) the dead (cid:523)ex. (cid:494)wake(cid:495), burial, cremation) Rituals to transition the deceased form the world of the living to the world of. Rituals to reintegrate survivors back into the community (cid:523)ex. (cid:494)cleansing(cid:495)(cid:524) Usually deceased are separated from the living. The deliberate killing of an offspring: direct, indirect (passive, )nfant is ill or (cid:494)deformed(cid:495, sex of the infant, result of adultery, birth of twins, too many children, poverty.