LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: In the past two centuries, Western societies have increasingly taken the approach of treating animals as a commodity—a raw material or resource for human use, a thing instead…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: One of the most familiar and intimate roles that animals play in the lives of contemporary Western people is that of pets. Pets are animals that are either domesticated…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: When we think of animals, we usually picture them as pets, food, or wildlife, but animals play a central role in the symbolism of human lives as…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Human-Animal Empathy in Subsistence One of the most important relationships between humans and animals is that centered on subsistence, the means by which a group of individuals…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: The Human-Animal Continuum Nonhuman animals are part of many facets of our lives. Many people rely on animals as part of food and subsistence systems, particularly in…
Figure 18.1 The relationships between humans and animals form a core part of all human cultures. Here, a man in Delhi sits beside his calf on a city street. (credit: “Mahimsyat sarva bhutani (veda)” by Abdel Sinoctou/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) Chapter Outline…
Medical anthropology is the application of anthropological practice and methods to medicine. It considers how culture affects medicine and health. Medical anthropologists thus try to study medicine and health within the context of the culture it comes from, which is…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Figure 17.11 Members of the Breathe Project, including anthropologist Ruth Fauman-Fichman (behind the speaker), protest the pollution caused by a decrepit steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (credit: “US-Steel-Air-Pollution-1100712”…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: The Importance of Cultural Context Culture is at the center of all human perspectives and shapes all that humans do. Cultural relativism is crucial…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Ethnomedicine is a society’s cultural knowledge about the management of health and treatments for illness, sickness, and disease. This includes the culturally appropriate process for…