ANTH 102 1nd Edition Lecture 25 Outline of Last Lecture Semester OverviewI. Thinking of AnthropologyII. Lessons from the FieldIII. The Big QuestionsIV. What distinguishes anthropology from other disciplines?V. Why study anthropology?VI. Quick Last ThingsOutline of Current Lecture TA PresentationsI. Maya Communities in Guatemalaa. Group networkb. Conservationc. Livingston, Guatemalad. Community SystemII. Indigenous Dress in Ecuadora. Appropriationb. Case Study: Quito, Ecuadorc. Diversity as Nationalismd. Gender IssuesIII. Chikungunyaa. Detailsb. Medical AnthropologyThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.i. Ecological/evolutionaryii. Critical Medical Anthropologyiii. Interpretive ModelCurrent LectureTA PresentationsIV. Maya Communities in Guatemalaa. Switted agriculture: plant corn, grow pigs, use communal plots of landb. Group networki. How does this expand from the one community to other rural communities?ii. Hold meetings for the different cooperativesc. Conservationi. Global to local scaleii. How does it fit with the organization of local areas?iii. Try to aid in incorporating their voice into the legislature regarding zone systems and bioreservesd. Livingston, Guatemalai. Began as ecotourism study, realized the community had a system of cooperatives to gain incomeii. Local hub and largest towniii. The study site is a more rural community outside of Livingstone. Community Systemi. 750 residents, 117 familiesii. Sources of income1. Wage labor (in nearest town)2. Curandero3. Independent handicraft vendor4. Subsistence farmingf. Community Historyi. Community pushes for electricity, potable water, dirt roadii. Belong to a network of 130 communities who work together to accomplish common goalsg. Reciprocation to the Communityi. Set up a website to increase tourism traffic to the communityV. Indigenous Dress in Ecuadora. Appropriationi. The action of taking something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s permissionii. What constitutes permission and who needs to give it? How does this change the act of appropriating?iii. Source, similarity, significanceb. Why does it matter?i. Dress as art? Commodity? Imposed social standard? Link to heritage?ii. Push women into the home sphere with dressc. Case Study: Quito, Ecuadori. Identify as Quechua speakers but also by their specific townsii. Plays up diversity with environment and indigenous groupsiii. Individuals identify with local over the national scaled. Diversity as Nationalismi. Move towards indigenous rights, desire to showcase indigenous populations, need to “look” indigenous, assumptions and associations with dress1. Tourists look for the “authentically different”2. The (Un)Changing Nativea. Dress is based on convenience and culture not just boxing them into the identification of their groupb. Clothing is typically cheaper and better madee. Gender Issuesi. Women’s bodies policed moreii. Men who work in the city are more fluid with their dress where women tend to be more traditional in dressf. Indigenous dress has a lot of poweri. Trying to sell an identity of differentii. Various commercial groups make watered down reproductions or imitations/influenced patterns of native dress to sell in mallsVI. Chikungunyaa. Detailsi. Mosquito-bornii. Fever, rash, severe arthralgia1. Arthritis could be permanentiii. First cases in Tanzaniaiv. Vaccines currently unavailablev. Treatment is rest and NSAIDSb. Medical Anthropologyi. Ecological/evolutionary1. Adaptations take to face a problema. Genetic, physiological, cultural2. Advantagesa. Scientific legitimacyb. Empirical datac. Basis for comparison3. Criticismsa. Fails to address sociopolitical dimensionsb. What is considered environment?4. What are the ecological conditions that spread the disease?5. What are the characteristics of the virus that spread the disease?6. Sociocultural adaptations that shape and spread disease?ii. Critical Medical Anthropology1. Emphasizes political and economic forces2. Subjects epidemiological data to analysis3. Questions are around political and economic structures4. Benefitsa. Disease patterns  class structuresb. Historical and comparative perspectivec. International factors on loval encironments5. Criticismsa. Not enough biologyb. Depersonalizes diseasec. Overly deterministic6. What socioeconomic class does the disease primarily affect?7. What historical events lead to current socioeconomic situation? Who benefits from these arrangements?iii. Interpretive Model1. Seeks to understand cultural meanings of illness that affect experience of sickness2. Benefitsa. Personal approach b. Framework for more beneficial public health policies3. Criticismsa. To particular4. What connotations surround the disease?5. How do local healers make sense of the disease?6. What objectives do competing narratives seek to fulfill?7. How do conceptions of disease shape public health campaigns and