Tag: society
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Advocacy
Advocacy is the part of anthropology that has the anthropologist play an advocate to a specific group or cause. This may be a matter of necessity (such as the questions about human rights of indigenous groups), personal wish or a thankless task given to them by others; just like a lawyer, an anthropologist may have…
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Medical Anthropology
Medical anthropology deals with health, medicine, even healing… All within the concept of anthropology. Some Universities even strive to have this anthropology course only taken at MA or higher level and that only by those who are veering off a medical BA or equivalent into anthropology (or at least have done so in the past),…
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Substance Abuse
Today we will discuss substance abuse. We will start with a definition of what we even mean by this. Many anthropologists – and indeed non-scientific members of our cultures and societies – do not consider the topic of abuse of substances within the context of ritual, traditional or social life. In other words, like murder…
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Syncretism
Today’s theme will be syncretism. Syncretism is something many have never even heard of, but the irony is it exists around us everywhere. The simplest explanation of syncretism is that it is the adoption of others’ beliefs into your own as your own. This is true of myth, tale and religion – they are all…