Anthropology Final

medical anthropology

how health, illness, disease are shaped, produced and experienced - health is deeply a social phenomenon

cultural influences and attitudes shape who society deems as _____ or ___ of care

worthy ; unworthy

psychiatric diseases, especially depression is not highly researched in….

non western societies

what are the 4 types of relations that shape disease?

economic relations, labor relations, governmental relations, spatial relations

economic relations

markets for livestock and their produce

labor relations

relations between humans and animals

governmental relations

the ways in which disease in monitored

spatial relations

not only what is meeting up, but how these meetings are spatially configured

Paul Farmer

• health is biological, social, and cultural

• inequality, poverty, political history

structural adjustment programs

• set of terms and conditions country must follow to receive a loan from the world bank or IMF 

• can lead to cuts in things like education and healthcare

structural violence

the infliction of physical harm by social, political, institutional, and economic systems that produce social inequality and expose specific populations to higher risks for disease, injury, and death

examples of structural violence

debt restructuring programs, social systems, food/resource allocation

when was economic globalization set into motion?

19th century! - been around a long time!

what was the Bracero program?

• established during WWII when more laborers were needed in the US

• 6 week - 6 month contracts around 4 million people

• exploitation!! of these people

object oriented research

• follow an abject through its “life”

• treating objects as active participants in social life rather than passive artifacts

examples of object oriented research

wax print and nike shoes

what is the territorial trap

tying culture to a very specific territory - we cant think of the world like that anymore

schengen area

passport free travel of 29 countries in europe schengen area ; EU - proposes internal and external borders

Fortress Europe

• internal vs external borders

• “central promise” - restain mobility for some to enable freedom for others

• pushes migration routes into the sea

prevention through deterrence

• inc police presence in urban areas of borders

• funnels people into hostile and harsh environments where they are likely to die

ethnographic research and writing

linking personal experiences/everyday lives to bigger structural/political themes and contexts

concentric zone model

• 1925

• cities are organized in circular zones with different characteristics

sector model

• organization around central transport routes

multiple nuclei model

• economically independent specialized “nodes”

• city grows around specialized nodes

• economically stratified

informal economies

• off the books work

the street life project

“what makes a city work” ; maximizing public spaces for most use

what are the 6 elements of public spaces

• sittable space

• relationship to/interactions w/ the street

• sun, wind, trees

• water

• food

• triangulation

hostile architecture

Purposefully designed to make it difficult or uncomfortable to spend a large amount of time in a public space

Anthropocene

• new planetary era defined by human influence, in which human processes drive all major earth systems

atmospheric influence

carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions

geologic influences

abundance of chicken bones provides fossil evidence of human ubiquity in the earths stratigraphy

biological influences

6th mass extinction, thermal stress

physical influences

changing ocean currents, melting ice

natural hazard vs disaster

no such thing as a natural disaster, only natural hazards ; becomes disaster when a hazard is mixed with vulnerability and exposure

human dimensions of climate change

• until recently climate change not seen as a human issue

• existential threat to global cultural diversity and knowledge systems

multispecies and nonhuman approach

defocusing the attention not be completely human centered, acknowledging that nonhuman species shape the environment. just as much

sustainability… is it actually sustainable?

just bc it claimed to be sustainable doesn’t mean it truly is…. is it still resulting in deforestation, destruction of habitats, social conflict (removing ppl from their land), etc.