ANTHROP 3HI3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bionics, Reforestation, Mimesis
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Cultural construction of concepts of o mind, body, self and emotions has contributed to a questioning of the autonomous, rational, disembodied self as a gold standard for successful personhood and has at the same time renewed anthropological interest in the body o ex tamils conceptualize themselves as having diff kinds of bodies and personalities based on the qualities taken in from the soil their birthplace o gendered relationships, sexual activity and the flow of bodily fluids are culturally constructed and contained. Explanatory= person"s experience w disease, illness narratives a. both look at the subjective experiences of person who is ill b. ethnomedicine c. anita= when she describes her illness and how it happened etc most of her experience d. manno he has his own explanatory model, but he has another social=cultural came from seeing vincent suffering, understanding of where the disease came from, but each person may have there own explanatory model as to where the disease came from.