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• Social context seen as crucial to healing • Illness is often seen as result of social or spiritual unbalance • Healing done in public, whole community often involved
Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like In many cultures, how is social position in a specific life stage commonly marked?, What is the basis for the creation of social identity?, What are the North American life stages also known as? and more.
Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Stratofied society, Social mobility, Social class and more.
Cultural anthropology : The study of the social lives of living communities. Cultural relativism : The moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold judgment about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices. Culture : The taken-for-granted notions, rules, moralities, and behaviors within a social group.
The six subfields of biological anthropology—primatology, paleoanthropology, molecular anthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and human biology—all help us to understand what it means to be biologically human.
Week 11:Belief Systems: Why do people believe things that others consider wrong? - Their religions and belief systems convince them Religion: A symbolic system that is socially enacted through rituals and other aspects of social life that relate to ultimate issues of humankind’s existence.
Linguistic 3. Biological 4. Archaeological Cultural anthropology - Study of human societies in a cross cultural perspective Linguistic anthropology - Function, form and social context of language Biological anthropology - Study of the human biology within the framework of evolution - Ex. body modifications Sir Francis Bacon
