Cultural Anthropology

Write an essay in which you draw on assigned reading of chapters in Schultz and Lavenda, Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition to discuss the role of anthropology in the study of diverse human responses to one of the following topics:

How people across cultures understand sickness and health, the focus of Chapter 14

In your essay on one of the above topics you must draw on material in the chapter in which the topic is presented and on related chapters in the Cultural Anthropology. For example, Chapters 2, 4, and 6 include key concepts and ethnography applicable to all three questions and should be reviewed as part of your final examination study and applied in your essay.