Medical Anthropology as a Part of Anthropological Discourse

Vol.11,No.1(2020)

Abstract

The subject of the study is a theoretic analysis of medical anthropology seen as an independent subdiscipline and a thematic area of anthropologic research. The objective of the study is to chart the main trends in medical anthropology and describe its biocultural nature. Special attention is paid to the relation between medical anthropology and death anthropology in the context of dying and attitude to human death. The study analyses the research potential of medical anthropology from intercultural as well as from evolutionary perspective with emphasis on human body transformations during the Neolithic Revolution.

 


Keywords:
medical anthropology; culture; human body; health; Neolithic revolution
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