Exam 16: What Is Applied Anthropology

What is structural violence? Explain how the Haitian case studies in the text are examples of structural violence.

According to Tom Boellstorff, which experience of the self do aficionados of Second Life regularly experience?

In the 1970s in Guider, Cameroon, a man and his wife were seeking therapy for infertility. First they went to the local biomedical clinic, then to a local Muslim practitioner, and finally made plans to consult a traditional non-Muslim healer living outside of town. This pattern of successive medical consultation is called

According to Tom Boellstorff, the experience of individual selves in Second Life is best demonstrated by the creation of

How does Spangler's case study of giving birth in Tanzania illustrate social exclusion and structural violence?

Medical anthropologists who seek to understand human sickness and health in an evolutionary context sometimes use the concept of

The physical toll that inequality takes on people's bodies is called

Which of the following statements describes the experience of rural Tanzanians who were interested in becoming health activists?

Analyze the concepts of social suffering and trauma. What is trauma? Using case material from this chapter, explain why this phenomenon is important for anthropologists to understand. Discuss the effects of social suffering and trauma on both individuals and groups. How have anthropologists begun to study these issues?

Political organization around a biosocial identity in order to demand health-related interventions by the state or other organizations is called

Define the terms biosociality and biological citizenship. How do anthropologists use these concepts to analyze the history of HIV/AIDS in Brazil?

Sicknesses (and the therapies to relieve them) that are unique to a particular cultural group are called

According to medical anthropologists, a state of physical, emotional and mental well-being, together with an absence of disease or disability that would interfere with such well being, is called

Alternative medical systems based on practices of local sociocultural groups are called

According to Paul Farmer, the fact that poor Haitian women were more likely to die of AIDS and poor Haitian men were more likely to die of violent injury is an illustration of what he calls

Based on their experiences delivering antiretroviral (ARV) therapy in Haiti and Rwanda through Partners in Health, Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim recommend that ARVs should be made universally available and free to all those who needed them.

In the 1970s in Guider, Cameroon, a man and his wife were seeking therapy for infertility. First they went to the local biomedical clinic, then to a local Muslim practitioner, and finally made plans to consult a traditional non-Muslim healer living outside of town. This pattern of successive medical consultation can only occur in a situation of

Medical anthropologists use which of the following terms to refer to events in life generated by forces and agents external to the person and largely external to his or her control; specifically, events generated in the setting of armed conflict and war?

Sydney Spangler, a medical anthropologist, argues that differential health outcomes experienced among Tanzanian women seeking the help of midwives at a Tanzanian village medical dispensary were due to

Which of the following best describes how Korwa people understand illness?