quiz 3

Question 1

sign

Answer 1

anything that a person uses to convey meaning about something to another person or people

Question 2

symbol

Answer 2

anything that represents and stands for something else by means of an arbitrary or culturally conventional code

Question 3

thick description

Answer 3

focuses on describing how people use signs in particular contexts to interpret a meaning of messages people send each other

Question 4

medical anthropology

Answer 4

cross-cultural study of health, illness, and healing as products of particular social and cultural contexts

Question 5

ethnomedicine

Answer 5

comparative study of cultural ideas about wellness, illness, and healing

Question 6

biomedicine

Answer 6

a medical system that relies on biological science for knowledge to guide healing strategies

Question 7

social construction of illness

Answer 7

experiences that are given meaning by the relationships between the person who is sick and others

Question 8

embodiment

Answer 8

term to describe lived bodily experiences, in and with inhabited worlds

Question 9

structural violence

Answer 9

a form of physical and emotional suffering caused by social inequalities that increase harms and risks for subordinate groups in a society (the way people are organizing hierarchies)

Question 10

symbolic violence

Answer 10

a concept to describe the interpretations of social inequalities as natural and legitimate (migrants live with the idea they can’t speak out against working conditions out of fear of being deported)

Question 11

sufrimiento

Answer 11

something migrant farm worker accept and see as necessary in their lives, not an individual pain but the distress of being a member of a group that must face these difficulties.