This class critically explores the place of cultural factors in constructing life problems, explanatory models, healing roles and curative devices in psychiatry, as articulated by anthropological and psychiatric scholarship. Special emphasis will be put on clinical material from Jewish sources. This class focuses on the cultural implications of the main political, sociocultural, ethnic, and religious cleavages in Israeli society as represented and accounted for in the anthropological literature on Israel. This seminar complements students' research in the Academic Internship Program in Physical Anthropology at the San Diego Museum of Man. Readings and discussions focus on anatomy, pathology, and classification and x-ray analyses of skeletal remains.
Research paper is required.
197.- Physical Anthropology, Museum of Man. Consent of instructor. This seminar complements students' research in the Academic Internship Program in Ethnography and Archaeology at the San Diego Museum of Man. Readings and discussions will focus on problems of analysis of material culture and classifications of artifacts and site excavations. Research paper is required.