Anthropology

I am concentrating on the medical part of anthropology and eventually going on to medical school. The health of the community is foremost in my mind. The problem in this area is the sewer sludge put on agricultural lands to fertilize the crops. The farmers buy the sludge and truck it to the fields. The problem is the sludge is not tested to determine if there are pathogens living in the supposedly treated sludge. A rancher was having problems with E. coli in his newborn calves. He asked me…

In the field of medical anthropology, biomedicine is more complex than just the science. I will attempt to demonstrate some concepts defining biomedicine using an interview conducted with a previously ill person. The interviewee, with the pseudo name of “Pinky”, is a female in her early 20s. About only a year before arriving in Canada, she was recovering from Pneumonia during a MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in Saudi Arabia. With the help of some of the interview’s anecdotes…

the issue on the subjectivity of man lies on the delineation of philosophy with its different views and perspectives. Wojtyła is convinced that the line of demarcation between the subjectivistic (idealistic) and objectivistic (realistic) views in anthropology and ethics must break down and is in fact breaking down on the basis of the experience of the human being. The traditional-Aristotelian and Thomistic concept of man as a rational animal (óor homo est animal…

Archaeological Anthropology Question 1: First Appearances of Religion When we think of religion, we often are reminded or churches or temples, morality, and an all-powerful, all-knowing, and benevolent being often referred to as a God, Goddess, or in some forms of recent religions, multitudes of the formers. As cited by the Oxford Dictionary there is one common definition of religion which is the “The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.”…

As evidence by their survey responses, the Penn Museum campers held many of the same misconceptions that the surveyed counselors and museum educators encountered or predicted, as well as those mentioned in the literature. There was a lot of confusion among the campers as to what constitutes an artefact and what archaeologists do with artefacts. The common mix-up between paleontology and archaeology was evident. When the campers were asked at the beginning of the week to write down what they knew…

species to evolve. In the case of this article, it has a direct relationship to biological anthropology, and how biological anthropologists would go about studying early humans to understand how modern-day humans evolved to our traits. However, this article provides information that is not heavily supported by the fossil record. Support from the fossil record is another connection with biological anthropology. From understanding that there is not enough physical evidence (fossils), the next…

Anthropology and sociology are both behavioral sciences. Furthermore, both anthropology and sociology adopt a scientific method by investigation and analysis. In contrast, anthropology and sociology ask distinguishable different questions and differ in the methods of research related to the field of social human behavior. Similarly, interviews and participant observation are two methods of research used by anthropology and sociology, both use quantitative and…

Role of Anthropologist in HIV/Aids Article In this issue of “Practicing Anthropology” a multitude of articles discuss the AIDS epidemic taking place throughout different African Countries. These articles focus on various aspects of HIV/AIDS in Africa such as the correlation between gender and HIV, the influence of the lack of health care workers on HIV/AIDS, the different ethical components needed to take into consideration when developing various HIV/AIDS interventions, and different types of…

By the end of my sophomore year, I had declared an Anthropology major and decided that I wanted to continue pursuing the pre-med track. I was not able to continue pre-med as an undergraduate, and maintained by focus in Anthropology through my undergraduate coursework, I was able to complete a pre-medical post baccalaureate program. Through Anthropology’s study of cultural and societal development I was able to form a connection between anthropology and medicine. It became clear to me that doctor…

challenging objectivity, there will be able to create a more representative and by default more, a feminist discipline of anthropology. If all knowledge comes from a place of power, which is defined by white, middle class, men, there is a problem with our reality as the knowledge is not representative (Butler, 1990). A universal anthropology should be a feminist anthropology which will give a voice to those that are currently unrecognised and bring into the foreground a wide range of previously…