chapter 1 introduction

  1. Assignment

  • hand in each week

  • Only hand in six

  • Start next week citation

  • Video - I’ll speak using my mic

  • Visual - my pics also graphics from canva

  • Friday to Friday probably

  • Eight weeks but will hand in six weeks

  1. chapter 1

  • is it colonial based???

  • Western perspectives

  • Doctors could prejudge off of history before coming up with a diagnoses

  • Bias and colonialistic

  • Scandinavian countries promote going outside to promote always being physical

  • But social economic plays roles in stress levels

3- notes

  • Anthropologists all but just different interests in subfields

  • sick roles culturally influenced

  • Seasonal flu is the western name but it’s culturally defined different in Sweden and not even get a flu shot for it compared to in Canada

  • Medicines not used globally like cough syrup

  • Culture affects Howe we perceive and relate to our health

  • Culture Shapes how we think beliefs and values we hold

  • Little c cultural big c capitalism

  • Anthrozoology looks at animals

  • Dirt therapy in itself as impacting us

  • What Are conditions celebrated or stigmatized in cultures

  • Happiness and health culturally what’s it like western culture compared to others

  • inequality power and health

  • anth medical array of theories

  • Change how communities see things and is a privilege when anthropologists go to studies their

  • culture aspects: learned, socialized, share, values, symbolic, patterns, adaptations, changes

  • culture is not static

  • ethnographic studies methods to gather data archives interviews which comes emic vs etic views

  • Autoethnography

  • Blue collar white collar philosophy

  • When put medical and anthropology together changes connotation

  • Emic detailed culture rich perspectives that we have compared to etic

  • Medical terms give relief in western culture because you and be categorized

  • Emic perspectives create biases example being lied to to researcher

  • Patient with anthropology and the researchers

  • And talking individuals healing differently

  • Tend to act differently when being observed by anthropologists

  • Female circumcision decreasing it slow government shut down because missed the angle why they were stopping emic perspective etic perspective not good attacking way of life - in Africa

  • Hard to watch culture do something harmful but in that culture it’s the way of practice so normal it’s not harmful to them nd feel hurt when people are stopping it

  • How can we make change if we don’t understand history and context

  • Who is defining what mental illness looks like?

  • Education comes in giving power to who not giving power back to developing places see it has gonna waste power

  • Power who has money and political power to give them power