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5 August 2003
AN203-057
we will begin at 6.00pm …
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Agenda
• Mapping project presentations
• Review/discuss Quinlan text
• Review/discuss P & B text
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My role in review…
• We discussed Murphy and Shostak last class… please get info from classmates
• Our discussion last class gives a good indication of the sort of analysis you will be doing on the final exam
• I can introduce some larger points from Quinlan… but you will need to fill in the details
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Marsha B. Quinlan, From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village. Toronto, Ontario: Wadsworth/Thompson, 2004.
• Medical anthropology• “Folk medicine” in
Dominica• Bwa Mawego• Rural, remote village
in Dominica
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Folk medicine
• “Folk” simply means “people”• “Folk medicine,” then, refers to any of the various remedies,
behaviors, substances used in the course of home-treatment of an ailment:
• Band-aids (cut, scrape)• Aloe gel (sunburn)• Advil (headaches, cramps)• Hot tea/lemon/honey (sore throat)• Cool bath (fever)• Hot shower (congestion)• Chicken soup (cold or flu)
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Folk medicine
• An important topic because most illnesses are treated via folk medicine rather than via a specialized medical practitioner (doctor, shaman, healer…)
• 70-90% of all medical treatment in US and Taiwan occurs at home
• Mothers in the Saraguro of Ecuador treat 86% of family illness complaints
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Methodology and epistemology for studying folk medicine . . .
• Does not involve interviewing professionals or experts (methodology)
• Does involve observing day-to-day lives of non-specialist individuals within a given community (methodology)
• Why? Because the information/knowledge about folk medicine lies with the “folk” (epistemology)
• The “experts,” therefore, in folk medicine are, by definition, non-medical personnel (epistemology)
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Methodology…
• Quinlan looks at population-wide data in order to locate larger patterns of behavior
• Different from the “key informant” strategy employed by some ethnographers
• Collected data during 4 field trips over a 6-year period (1993-1999)
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Method & focus
• Quinlan is interested in three main ideas:– Ethnomedicine– Medical enculturation– Ethnopharmacology
• Advocates a holistic view of the beliefs, practices, and substances of medicine (i.e., medicine is a culture of its own, and varies from culture to culture)
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ethnomedicine
• A culture’s body of beliefs about sickness
• Includes ideas about what we need to do to stay healthy, how we catch certain illnesses, and what we must do to get better
• Also includes knowledge of when and why (and from whom…) to seek medical help when we are sick
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• http://www.tfba.org/articles.php?articleid=17
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(ethno)medical enculturation
• How this body of beliefs is transferred between individuals
• Examples…
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ethnopharmacology
• Ethnomedicine referred to the beliefs concerning sickness and health
• Ethnopharmacology refers to the medication itself (which can take a variety of forms)
• Drugs…• Plants…• Foods…
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Method & focus
• Quinlan is interested in three main ideas:– Ethnomedicine– Medical enculturation– Ethnopharmacology
• Advocates a holistic view of the beliefs, practices, and substances of medicine (i.e., medicine is a culture of its own, and varies from culture to culture)
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Holistic view ??!
• Based on the premise that treatment of any sort (specialist or non-specialist) always involves the beliefs, practices, and substances which comprise the particular culture’s perspective on health
• Quinlan (and others) use a three-fold method to ensure that anthropological analyses are holistic:
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Holistic view
• Identify the health problem and how it is conceivably healed according to the locals (emic view)
• Objectively assess the remedy’s ability to produce the desired effect (etic view)
• Identify the areas of convergence and divergence between the emic and etic
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Quinlan
• http://www.bsudailynews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/07/07/3f09c5525772a
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P & B Thematic ReviewFieldwork
- Communication• Food• Agriculture• Race• Economy & Business• Gender and Socialization• Marriage and Gender Relations• Politics, Law, & Warfare• Religion, Ritual, & Curing• Cultural Change & Globalization
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For each article:
1) Main point (thesis) in one sentence.2) Two most interesting ideas from the article.3) Two most important terms from the article.4) Two anthropological concepts that the article
illustrates/addresses (e.g., methodology, emic view, ethnicity…)
5) One larger theme under which the article could be categorized (e.g., marriage, gender relations, health, etc…).
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…this just in…
Tonight we have to fill out course evaluation forms!
I cannot be here when you fill them out… so I will leave them here in an envelope and return at 8.30pm…
Someone needs to volunteer to collect them and take them downstairs to the Continuing Ed. Office.