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ANG 6737 Knowledge Base
This section of the wiki will be built by participants in the seminar on medical anthropology (ANG 6737), beginning in fall 2009. A wiki is a collaborative web space that can be edited by many users. The most famous wiki isWikipedia. You can think of this wiki as a mini-Wikipedia just for ANG 6737.
To get started, read about how to use the class wiki.
See the main course website for the syllabus, schedule, and course blog.
Course Outline
- Week 1: Introduction and overview
- Week 2: Ecology, adaptation, and evolution
- Week 3: Culture, political economy, and health
- Week 4: Health transitions
- Week 5: Nutrition, growth, and child health
- Week 6: Reproductive health
- Week 7: Social suffering and everyday violence
- Week 8: Infections and inequalities, I
- Week 9: Infections and inequalities, II
- Week 10: Social inequalities, stress, and disease
- Week 11: Embodiment
- Week 12: Meaning, mind, and body
- Week 13: No class—Thanksgiving
- Week 14: Anthropology and public health, I
- Week 15: Anthropology and public health, II
Seminar Moderator Schedule
Last updated Sunday; November 15, 2009; 3:44 PM
