ANTH 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Medical Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Biomedicine
14 Nov 2020
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The study of how culture shapes personality over the life cycle from birth to death. Personality: an individual"s patterned & characteristic way of behaving, thinking. Variations in personality in different cultural contexts. Research on many children"s behavior in 6 cultures. Major findings of difference between horticultural & industrial/informatics sties. In horticultural contexts, women work outside the home in the fields & markets so children fill in doing maternal tasks like cooking & child care. In industrial/informatics contexts many mothers at home so children do not generally learn to be nurturant & responsible. Length & content of adolescence related to gender roles & mode of. Study of health & health problems across cultures. One of the fastest growing areas of anthropology. Enthomedicine is the cross cultural study of health systems. All health systems, even western biomedicine are culturally shaped. Power & politics are intimately related to this topic.
