ANTHR207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Claas, Rela, Ethnomedicine

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR207
• Professor: Brent Hammer

Document Summary

Study of health, healing, disease, illness, and sickness in cultural context o: open to traditional knowledge. Cultural context; not just different people but also different times. Embraces traditional knowledge (culturally known, passed down through generations) Used to solve problems; they are out in the world, not just in labs. Biological: domain of physical anthropologists, explain relationships through evolutions, human genetic evolution, development of disease to understand current health trends, a lot of current health trends are called. Diseases of civilization (heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc. ) Approach that privileges the body as the endpoint of health, illness, disease (positivist approach to reductionism) Basis of comparison that is used to look at anthropological contexts across different places/systems. Ecological: relationships between organisms and their total environments. The interdependent actions of plants, animals and natural resources make an ecosystem that has characteristics that are bigger than the things within it, relationships between them all.