Define and give an example of the interpretivist approach in medical anthropology
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. The healing process is understood as part of a system of meaning.
2. It considers factors such as the effectiveness of symbols on treating health problems.
3. The placebo effect demonstrates that the act of prescription itself can have a positive impact.
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a. people in industrialized countries. b. foragers. c. horticulturalists and agriculturalists. d. post industrialists.
The tools found just south of the Rockies on the High Plains are known as the
________ complex. a. Pippin b. Charlemagne c. Martel d. Clovis
The evidence of deliberate burial of the dead by Neandertal is found at all the following except
a. Sima de los Huesos b. Tabun c. Kabwe d. La Chapelle e. Kebara
Which anthropologist worked with the Aroostook band of Micmacs in Maine?
a. Alan Kolata b. Clementine van Eck c. Fred Plog d. Weston LaBarre e. Harald Prins