UMass (Amherst), ANTHRO 106

Excerpt: ... Anthro 106 - Midterm Study Guide KEY TERMS Ethnocentrism: Biological anthropology: Archaeology: Linguistic anthropology: Cultural anthropology: Ethnography: Enthnocentrism: Cultural relativism: Culture: Emic: Etic: Salvage Anthropology: Self-reflexivity: Freeman-Mead controversy: Sapri-Whorf Hypothesis: Linguistic prejudice: Phonetic analysis: Phonemic analysis: Phonology: Morphology: Syntax: Lexicon: Proxemics: Sociolinguistics: Code-switching: Ritual: Symbol: Syncretism: Rite of Passage: Rite of Intensification: Medical anthropology : Ethnobotany: Biomedicine: Complementary medicine: Indigenous rights: Community-based participatory research: Colonialism: ...

Washington, ENG 198

Excerpt: ... Megan Styles Winter 2006 Instructor: Megan Styles Death Without Weeping Glossary* *Note: These terms were identified by students in Eng198C as vocabulary that needed further clarification. The meanings of some of these terms are contested/controversial. This glossary is not meant to discourage you from searching for the meanings of unknown words as you encounter them in the text! One easy way to do this is to type Define: x (where x is an unknown vocabulary term) into the Google search engine. This will generate a list of possible definitions and their source pages. alterity (n.) the condition of being radically different or unlike some other being, state or thing http:/www.theliterarylink.com/definitions.html critical medical anthropology (n.) a branch of medical anthropology that considers the political economy of health and the effect of social inequality on people's health. It puts emphasis on culture histories, rather than purely biomedical and social explanations of analyzing health. http ...

San Diego State, ANTH 101

Excerpt: ... Anthropology Notes (8/30/06) Cultural Anthropology: Study of human societies, their belief systems, their cultural adaptations, and their social behaviors Urban Anthropology Medical Anthropology Demographics Archeology: The recovery, analysis, and interpretation of material culture from past civilizations Geology Botany Paleontology Linguistics: The study of languages historical linguistics- origins of a language sociolinguistics- social uses of a language salvage linguistics- recording dying languages Biological Anthropology: The study of human evolution, biological variation, and adaptation *forensics *human growth and adaptation *paleontology *primatology *genetics Applied Anthropology: Solve a problem I the context of the culture in which it exists. - utilizes more than one area of anthropology Being Human: -bipedalism -large brain in comparison to body size -complex culture - lack of estrus Other terminology: Holistic: anthropology uses many different fields in research- Applied Anthropology Ethnocent ...

McGill, ANTH 227

Excerpt: ... Aynsley Merk Medical Anthropology 227: Take Home-Midterm- Question 3 North, northeast, east, Southeast, south, southwest, West, northwest, 1 Every weekend I walk in a different direction until the ticking contraption strapped to my wrist draws my wanderlust and I back home. Back home to a plethora of texts to read, questions to answer, and a steaming brew. However, this is not the end. These weekly texts continue my adventuring from Montreal to the Azande of the northern Nile River, east to Hong Kong and China, to western Kenya and the Loa, and south to the Merced, California Hmong. Everywhere I went crashed. My own `Western' upbringing made these foreign cultures seem ridiculous. A question formed. Ambling back about 15 years, would I be less quick to deem something irrational? Sick is a children's novel intended to be a bed time story shared by parents and children. 6 year-old Kira is in the hospital with a sickness her doctors are unable to diagnose. Every night when she finishes her container of fru ...

South Carolina, ANTH 101

Excerpt: ... Health and Healing ANTH 102 Understanding Other Cultures Fall 2006 Medical Anthropology Study of the human experience with disease (and healing systems) in cross-cultural perspective Biocultural perspective important to avoid reductionist views of disease Political economy is a primary epidemiological factor Ethnography important tool for understanding human suffering due to disease Notable Medical Anthropologists George Foster Medical Anthropology Nancy Scheper-Hughes Death Without Weeping Paul Farmer AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame Margaret Lock Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life Ethnomedicine Health systems that exist in different cultures Includes everything from: perception and classification of illness to diagnosis and prevention to healing Also includes anthropology of the body and focus on globalization and health Ethnomedicine Origins: 1960s referred to non-Western med ...

Auburn, ANTH 1000

Excerpt: ... ntellectual understanding of the head. Religion - An inclusive concept of a system of belief (Religions are different from cults, Religions can overlap while remaining the same) Anthropology 11/12/07 Medical Anthropology 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Disease, illness, and sickness Different approaches within medical anthropology How can specific cultural practices be adaptive to spreading disease? Anthropology's contribution to health Psychological anthropology 1. Disease, illness, and sickness Medical anthropology - study of health and illness within social life Disease - A biological perspective (Etic approach) Illness - Individually perceived process of health, sense of ill-being (Emic approach) Sickness - Social recognition of dysfunction 2. Different approaches within medical anthropology Biocultural - focus on disease Cognitive/Rational choice - focus on illness, assumes people will act in their own best interest when they have proper information. Meaning Centered/Symbolic - focus on illness, treats the social ...

Wisconsin, LIT. TRANS 248

Excerpt: ... The Vampire in Literature and Film Professor Tomislav Longinovi 1452 Van Hise Office Hours: Thursday 9:55-11:55 This course explores the historical development of the vampire legend, from its roots in Slavic and East European folklore to the literary and cinematic variations on the legend from the 18thcentury until today. Since the problematic image of the vampire Literature in Translation 248 vacillates between the real and the imaginary, this will be a truly interdisciplinary course, spanning analysis drawn from medical anthropology to the discussions on literary and cinematic representations of the ancient creature of horror. BOOKS: (Required: Underground Textbook Exchange, 664 State St) A.Dundes, The Vampire (1998) A. Ryan, The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories(1989) Gordon&Hollinger, eds, Blood Read (1997) McNally&Florescu, In Search of Dracula (1994) B. Peki, How To Quiet A Vampire (1978) FILMS: F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu (1922), 90 min. T. Browning, Dracula (1931), 75 min. R. Polanski, Fearless Vampire K ...

Penn State, ANTH 180

Excerpt: ... t) Linguistic anthropology Structural linguistics Historical linguistics Soci olinguistics Study of language in culture Ethnology or Sociocultural Anthropology Study of present day cultures Economic anthropology Medical anthropology Political anthroplogy Anthropology of religion Ethnology Began as study of nonliterate cultures Approaches Now study people everywhere including our own culture Ethnography = study of a specific culture Comparative ethnology = comparison of cultures Cross-cultural approach Culture All aspects of human adaption Set of learned behaviors Transmitted by nonbiological (nongenetic) means Four Field Approach (con't) Anthropology is either theoretical or applied Examples of applied anthropology Cultural resource manage ment (CRM) (archaeology) Forensic anthropology (physical anthropology) Applied ethnology HOLISM Anthropology is holistic Unity of human biology and cutlure Cultural integration Basic Concept ...

Idaho, WEBPAGES 410

Excerpt: ... Case 4: Protecting Research Subjects A brilliant doctoral student of Lee's is preparing for her dissertation defense in a medical anthropology program. Her research on family relationships and child treatment discusses the borderlands of discipline, child abuse and neglect. She has important theoretical contributions to make in the area of evolving cultural definitions of parent-child relationships among the subpopulation she studied in the US. The student plans to publish her work as an ethnography, complete with many of the candid black-and-white photos she took of the children and families she studied. Lee is stunned by the evocative power of these photographs, but has come to three discomfiting conclusions: 1. when she began her research, the student did not include photographic methods as part of application to the local Internal Review Board; 2. consequently, the student has no signed permission from any of the individuals pictured in the photographs to use these identifying images in research or public ...

Arkansas, ANTH Intro

Excerpt: ... sFundamental intellectual process Speech puzzles based on metaphoric categories, often contradictory VI. Urban Legends in American Folklore a. Folklore and Urban Legends b. Features of Urban Legends INTRODUCTION of MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Medical Anthropology - the study of health belief systems in cross-cultural perspective Ethno-medicine- the study of indigenous healing and the classification of illness Illness Categories- cultural categories (constantly changing) I. II. The Cultural Experiences of Illness and Disease Major Orientations in Medical Anthropology a. Medical Folklore- the study of health belief systems among different social groups b. Medical Pluralism- analyzing access to multiple heath care systems c. Applied Medical Anthropology - locating cultural barriers and resistance to health care services d. Medical Ecology- examines the impact of ecological changes on the health of human populations e. Critical Medical Anthropology - focuses on the politics of health care: power, access, and contr ...

Midwestern State University, ANTH 206

Excerpt: ... 4243] o Key concept: diffusion Week Ten: Nov 24 & 26 No readings due. Week Eleven: Dec 1 Due: Mon, 12/1 [ Medical Anthropology ] "Ancient Teachings, Modern Lessons" [pp. 146-150] o Key concept: folk medicine (indigenous knowledge) A copy of the "Test Your Knowledge Form" is available online at Blackboard and from my listed faculty webpage www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/franklin under the ANTH 206 section. ...

Allan Hancock College, BIAN 2119

Excerpt: ... f systems of the ill person), both together = sickness Medical anthropology : cultural focus 4 Disease patterns in populations Within a population, your disease risk depends on who you are Age, sex, economic status, ethnicity Patterns of disease occurrence vary from population to population Population perspective different from personal medical care but links to public health 5 In public health the old clich is true, and important Prevention is better than cure 6 1 Disease ecology, medical geography, epidemiology All study patterns of disease in populations Differences of emphasis: environmental impacts, spatial contrasts, statistical patterns All types of disease & injury are included: infectious, genetic, congenital, allergic, degenerative, poisoning, accidental . Data sources? Dedicated surveys, hospitals & clinics, death registers . 7 Some terms Endemic / epidemic / pandemic Incidence / prevalence Case-fatality Morbidity / mortality Zoonosis Reservoir Virgin-soil epidemic 8 Enormous vari ...