Thursday, September 24, 2015
Origin of social cultural anthropology
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Franz boas
o 1858-1942
o Founder of American anthropology
o Worked with Kwakiutl and Inuit people
o Colonial expansion
o Europeans discovering people, thought of as others
o The other
Basic terms and concepts
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Nice example of reciprocity
o Mixtec celebration (Ch6)
Mayordonmon
o A woman and a man, usually married
Reasonable for celebrations
Hundreds of people for every celebration
As many as 9 separate meals
Economics
o Concret
Lecture 12 HLTB42 - Thursday, November 26th, 2015
Class assignment we did last week
- Try to avoid structural violence as much as you can and the treatment has to be relative to the
location
- Treat the discourse as an object youre observing, the public h
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Kinship, sex and Gender
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Kindred: group of people not necessarily all related to one another but who have a relative in
common
Kinship: a family relationship, whether by heredity, marriage, adoption, etc.
Q: why do anth
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
Lecture 9
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
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What holds societies together?
o Collective consciousness
The system of beliefs and sentiments shared by average members in a society
o Collective effervescence
Enhanced feeling of belo
HLTB42: L.6 Oct.22/15
Midterm Take-Up
1. Franz Boas is considered the founder of American Anthropology
2. FALSE Anthropologists have found that social institutions are less sophisticated in
small-scale, technologically simple societies
3. By fully control
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
Lecture 11
Conceptualizing Mental Health/ Illness
Mental health- a state of well-being, where a person
- Reaches her/his optimal abilities
- Can cope with normal stresses
- Can meet their needs
- Can work productively
- Has a
HLTB42: L.3 Sept.17/15
Review- The Anthropological Gaze
Refers to the way they observe and evaluate
Two gazes:
o Unidirectional and diagonal
o Unidirectional observes other
o Dialogical observes and is observed but as a dialog going
Important consideratio
HLTB42 Medical Anthropology [Perspectives of Culture, Illness and
Healing] L.1 Sept.3/15
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Looked over the syllabus [posted on blackboard]
Medical anthropology is looking at humanity in a holistic ( as a whole) way vs the reductionist
view
BONUS MARKS
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HLTB42: L.2 Sept.10/15
What is anthropology?
Holistic (as a whole; a bunch of components combined) study of humanity
Study at Ukraine
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All sorts of interconnecting views (political, historical, medical of Eastern Europe)
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Requires all the pieces of the
HLTB42: L.4 Sept.24/15
Origins of Social Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas: (1858 1942)
o Founder of American anthropology
o Worked with Kwakiutl and Inuit peoples after left Germany and came to America
Boas was responding to ways of thinking about the wor
HLTB42: L.5 Oct.1/15
Midterm
MC questions
Content: up to/including today (does not include Bodies & Embodiment)
Key Terms
Medical gaze
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Michel Foucault, Birth of the Clinic
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Distancing, objectifying
Denotes the way of seeing people as distance and objec
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Review
The anthropological gaze
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Refers to the way they observe and evaluate
Two gazes
o Unidirectional and dialogical
o Unidirectional observes other
o Dialogical observes and is observed but has a dialog going
Importa
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
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Malinowskis style of ethnography involved some
o Participation
o Surveys
o There was more I just didnt get it cuz I just joined the class *sigh*
In the late 19th century there was a theory of unilineal evolution
Thursday, October 01, 2015
MIDTERM WILL NOT INCLUDE THE BODY STUFF OR EMBODIMENT
Language and communication
Key terms
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Medical gaze
o Especially throughout the 18th century the gaze was emerging
o Medical field was evolving a certain way
o Dont interpr
Hltb42 lecture 7
Friday, February 10, 2017
1:12 PM
EmileDurkheim
Whatholdssocietiestogether
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Collectiveconsciousness
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Collectiveeffervescence
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Mechanicalandorganicsolidarity
Differentiatedsmallscalevslargescalesocieties
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Cameupw/collectiveconsciousnes
