ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Zande People, Biomedicine, Granary
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Meds not used how they are prescribed. Meds small, portable, sellable: properties as objects, have special social significance. Charms an object, or saying believed in magic power: e. g. the dreamcatcher special properties believed to be found in the objects. Magic aura around an object, act or saying. Kleinmann disjucture between doc"s disease categories and patients illness experience implications for social relations. Having drugs can validate a person"s illness or legitimates the person"s experience in regards to the illness liberating, individualizing. Makes you feel like you are fighting the illness. Medicine as commodities commodities are things that have exchange values and don"t lose their properties in exchange (based on its market value) E. g. not a commodity belief of a diviner (i. e. E. g. not a commodity belief of a diviner (i. e. shaman throwing bones to diagnose someone"s illness) vs medicine is a commodity. Medicine is sailable can be transacted, bought and sold, stolen without lose of extrinsic value.
