There is nothing more American than apple pie. The proof is trivial. Apple pie a La Mode is delicious. Did you ever stop to think about how apple pie comes out to your diner booth table steaming hot avec vanilla ice-cold ice cream on the side? First there are the ingredients of pie: mostly flour, […]
Social determinants of health include many factors. In these readings we have discovered that one’s residence directly relates to one’s physical and mental health outcomes. To see this more clearly, we were given a brief history of urban planning as well as a snapshot on contemporary urban development. It seems expedient to promote equality in […]
Ponder as you read: How does socio-economic status determine one’s physical health? How about one’s gender identity, how they present to the world? Do this same exercise for someone’s race, age, marital status, family size, etc…. We all want to be treated fairly. This implies that we all have an individual set of moral values, […]
Hello, My name is Shia, (pronounced ShY-uh, or SHe-uh if you want to be formal), most people just call me ShY. I have senior standing and I enjoy studying computers and Mandarin, I have a new appreciation for mathematics since this past summer. You may recognize me as I ran for ASM last year. I […]
The medical staff at MCMC were not trained or ready for anything like what they experienced with the Hmong community. Language difficulty was a given, but lack of compliance, strong differences in cultural beliefs, hardships related to scientific discovery, and high birth rates, caused medical staff to become worked up when caring for Hmong patients. […]
In less than two decades, much of Gebusi life has changed due to Western influence. For instance, “not one of the 16 marriages in the community between 1982 and 1998 was considered sister-exchange,” which was arguably the most culturally acceptable method for marriage at one point (156). On Knauft’s first exposure to Gebusi settlements in […]
As one might expect, in a changing culture, there are changing economic conditions and practices. For the Gebusi, this would have tremendous significance for females in their society. In 1998, misogyny continues to have a great presence in Gebusi lives; but, between the 1980s and 2000, it is also true that women have gained more […]
After Bruce Knauft and company returned to the United States several years went by before Knauft would make his way back to Gebusi settlements, sixteen years to be precise. And in that time Gebusi culture had dramatically morphed into a society run by time, and Christianity. This new lifestyle, one might argue, was a loss […]
Arguably, it is a good sign when anthropologists are surprised while conducting field work, it lends a certain level of excitement and support for the important work that they are doing. They are recording observations never formerly recorded before or they are witnesses to events other outsiders may never have been permitted to witness. In […]
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