ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caste System In Sri Lanka, Language Barrier, Quran

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

Document Summary

Loss of fingers and toes, face, nose, parts of the body that are at the ends of things: age, nutrition etc can all play a part, armadillo can get leprosy. In india: affect people physically in people all around the world, social outcast, reject by community, viewed as repulsive and is often feared, legal grounds for divorce. Initial rejection by community and peers: self-imposed social isolation. In nigeria: believed to be in large part of self inflicted, gluttony, swearing falsely by the koran, washing in water a leprosy patient has used.