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Please use the provided readings as sources
Part 1: Short answers to Keywords and Concepts (1 Page only)
Select 6 out of 10 of the following keywords and concepts in medical anthropology.
In short answers, (3-4 sentences), please provide:
Added Clarification: drawing on the readings but in your own words
A description and example illustrating the concept(s), drawing from the readings. Describe the significance of the concept to medical anthropology or medical/clinical practice
1) “Biopower”
2) “Emplotment”
3) “Illness” vs. “disease” vs. “sickness”
4) “Local biologies”/ “biosocial differentiation”
5) “Somatization”
6) “The body proper”
7) “The empiricist paradigm of language”
8) “Atomism”
9) “The work of culture”
10)“Habitus”
PART 2 (Three Pages):
Answer each question in 400-500 words.
1) Compare and contrast discussion of the function of belief in witchcraft and in western biomedicine. Describe and discuss 3 parallels and 3 differences between witchcraft and sorcery on the one hand, and biomedicine on the other. (Use the Evans-Pritchard and Byron Good article AND the Lock and Nguyen artifice)
2) Embodiment. Drawing on materials presented in class readings, discuss the concept of “embodiment.” Explain how this concept challenges dualistic ideas about the relationships between: a) mind/ body, b) individual/social, and c) subject/ object.
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