AN272 Monmouth Cultural Gaps Between Conceptions of Medicine & Etiologies of Illness Paper
AN272 Monmouth Cultural Gaps Between Conceptions of Medicine & Etiologies of Illness Paper
The answer should be based on close work with the texts assigned before the prompt, rather than your own personal opinions. Substantiate your answers with specific references to the texts and authors assigned.
a) What is the difference (according to Foster) between personalistic and naturalistic etiologies of illness? How does that distinciton correspond with the understanding of witchcraft and illness among the Azande (from the documentary about Evans-Pritchard’s research)? Are there differences between the beliefs about illness in Tzintzuntzan and among the Azande? How does Foster’s model apply (or not) to the possession cosmology of zar participants described by Kenyon?
b) What are the cultural gaps between conceptions of medicine between the Hmong and the American Medical system described by Fadiman in “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”? Do you think there would be a similar gap between curanderos described by De La Portilla and the mainstream medical establishment in San Antonio, Texas, where her fieldwork took place?
*400 WORDS*
*USE TEXTBOOK PROVIDED TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AS WELL AS REFERRING TO TEXT*
*TEXTBOOK IS Pamela Moro anthology, “Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 9th Edition READ PAGES 234-288*
*ALSO WATCH THIS VIDEO TO ANSWER QUESTION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q9HyONL_10 *
