ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Franz Boas, Biomedicine, Hermeneutic Circle
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Making meaning of illness lecture 2 may 18th 2011. Not just the girl with cancer can fit into rebirth literature because mother. Narratives is that it can be repeated, passed on and that way it re-creates its meanings. Look at the process of meaning making in this lecture : on culture: perspect of culture in this course . Ideational system ( ideas, symbols, concepts, rules, meanings) meanings and rules that govern how people live assumptions on which behavior/life is based there are rules of how we think of ourselves. Culture- distorting lens that we forget that we are wearing and taking them for granted. Assume that we are seeing reality directly but not really Features of this lens assume that everyone else sees the world the same way we do and this is where it gets interesting we try to learn about prescription of own lens how is my perception different from anothers
