ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Sociocultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Ethnomedicine
Document Summary
Ant208 lec 2 medical anthropology: evolution + culture. Many diff. types of approach that people use in medical anthro view. Focus of class = evolution of human health vulnerabilities, but doesn"t assume that all biological reasons; 1 of key features of humans = social and cultural adaptations. Culture concept culture is difficult to define; it has influence on health b/c important evolutionarily. Understanding health where we have it, where we don"t, etc. Can have it on several things, eg. food. Disease / illness / sickness / suffering. Applied when take info and apply it. Anthropology: aims to investigate (describe + understand) Cultural +biological to understand biological perspective. Similarities (common to all) + variations (differences, disparities, inequities) identify differences, understand them; may have greater vulnerabilities. Space (social: cultures + geographic: populations) + time (change: lifetimes, historic, prehistoric) time goes from evolutionary changes or historical changes. Humans + closely related species changes and diff b/w these 2.
