ANTHROP 2U03 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Black People, Public Health, Pandemic

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2U03
• Professor: Emily Cowall

Document Summary

Pestilence: disease outbreak with a high death rate. Term used by early writers to refer to any severe crowd disease resulting in heavy mortality. A word used to explain catastrophe (even if an actual plague hasn"t broken out) Death has the world in its hands; humans are at the mercy of plagues. Death is represented as a chicken, which caused the sars outbreak. Art that depicts death/plagues always has icon of the sickle. People have no knowledge or understanding, which escalates fear. Death seems to riding on a creature, killing people and leaving destruction and fear in its. Everything is a depiction of death making its way through the population from the waterfront. Made to show a rendition of the tragic aspects of unknown plagues. Sudden, widespread death leading to fear its path ont. Takes dramatic, narrative form; these things always consistently happen. Phase one: public acknowledgement when suffering death can"t be ignored.