ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quran, Stomach Cancer, Elizabeth Kenny
27 Feb 2017
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Dif cult to cure medically due to no clear biological cause. Culturally linked to concern with appearance and body weight. Ideals of beautiful body weight changing over history and vary culturally. Upper palaeolithic venus figure from willendorf, austria. Marilyn monroe (ideal 1950"s female body type in north america vs. a model in 2015) Self starvation behaviour seen in past: anorexia" = new term, but clinically can be traced back in time (in context of religion) St. catherine of siena (1347-1380): regarded as saint, complete control over body was seen as devotion. Medieval women and holyness, and modern women and thinness = ideal states of being are struggle to assert female identity. Environment interacts with culture to in uence the cause and spread of health problems (categories of people at risk, etc. ) Anorexia: results from urbanization, modernization, stressors" (western ideals of beauty) Focus on illness and healing as symbols and meanings.
