ANTHRCUL 244 Final Exam - Short Answers Flashcards
How is GAD v. Neurasthenia viewed & who has the authority?
- (Tran) Patients reject GAD in part because
neurasthenia is related to moral obligation and social/moral legitimacy (personhood) - Worry is a “practical” consequence of caring for others
- Doctors cast worry as an individual feeling that patient has to learn how to manage
What is the main argument of Plemons?
Main Argument: FFS depends on an assertion that faces (and individual facial features) can be categorized and understood as part of groups (e.g. “feminine faces look like this”).
- Also is ethnic whitening
Compare the cases of Flint, MI and Colonia Periferico.
- Both are the result of higher upstream decisions
- Welcome v. Unwelcome Interventions.
What are described as the negatives and positives of the old age homes
in India?
- (Lamb) Duality of experiences – for those that are childless, old age homes provide a community. For those that have children, they see it as a negative that their children aren’t taking care of them and instead they are in an old age home.
- Negative perceptions that the rise of old age homes mark a loss of traditional family values (which includes multi-generational living), increase of westernization and materialism.
Lamb
Main Argument: Old age homes are not solely good or bad, but provide a duality of experiences. Lamb encourages viewing old age homes through a more critical lens
Berger-Gonzales
“Among Maya communities, healing is a collective process, which starts with the healer and
the individual in which the illness is embodied, but transcends this dyad to incorporate wider social
realms such as the family and community members and include relationships that encompass
material, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions with different levels of interaction.”
Tran
Main Argument: a disconnect in the ways in which anxiety and worry are being modeled, how distress is being indicated, and a framing of the problem as psychological or physiological.
Doctor’s expertise over the patient.
Tallbear
Argues that if genomic articulation takes precedence, it has implications for indigenous peoples’ sovereignty (526)
Indigeneity for indigenous people can’t be summed up by just genetics, but by the sense of opposition to colonial forces (before v. after), connection to land
Petryna
- Chernobyl survivors had to form new identity based on their sickness as they demand for rights from government to live
- Emergence of Biological Citizenship
Bridges
Main Argument: By compelling patients (through moral sanctions) to meet with a host of people, they intrude on the patients private lives, making them public and regulating poor, uninsured women, which is not the case for women who can afford private insurance and care.
Ford
Main Argument: Argues that institutions are hierarchical, and that attuned consent accounts for this. Also discusses the role of doulas, who mediate consent.
Cerdena
Main Argument: Stereotypes and biases operate alongside a system at Cerdena’s fieldsite where providers are generally white, patients are nonwhite and generally Latinx (what she terms a lack of racial and linguistic proximity).
Langford
Main Argument: The definition of secularism often reflects the dominant religious framework
When a non-Christian (in the case Hindu) bring to light invisible Christian theological presumptions.
Ex. donation to charity, ask for money
Suzuki
Japanese commercialized funerals have characteristics of rationalization and professionalization. They have transformed the meaning of death and result in consumers becoming passive participants of the funeral, and dependent on professionals.
Stonington
Explores the approach of gazing inward and facing death, process that both the patient and the health provider are participating in, and the health provider is also gaining wisdom about death
- End of life is not a point but a period of time
