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ANT 300
Chapter 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a definition for mass communications | One-to-many communication that privileges the sender and or owner of the technology that transmits the media |
| What are personalistic ethno etiologies | They view disese as the result of the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human, nonhuman, or supernatural. |
| At the heart of media anthropology is the assertion that | Media practives are not universal |
| The types of media that media anthropologists study include | All of the above |
| What is a placebo effect | A responce to treatment that ocurs because the person reeiving the treatment believes it will work, not because the treatment itself is effective |
| What is the biomedical ethno etiology | It applies insights from science, particularly biology and chemistry, to the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions |
| What is ethnomedicine | The comparactive study of cultura ideas about wellness, illness, and healing. |
| Media anthropologists are concerned with some classic subjects of cultural anthropology, including | All of the above |
| Studies by media anthropologists have demonstrated that | Al of the above |
| What is a culture bound syndrom | All of the above |