Anthropology - The holistic study of human kind, Medical anthropology - A branch of Anthropology focusing on how people in different cultures and social groups explain the causes of ill health, the types of treatments they believe in, and to whom they turn if they get ill, Emic perspective - Studies the behaviour from inside the system (insider’s view), Etic perspective - Scientific / academic view point, studies the behaviour from outside the system, Culture - A pattern of ideas, customs and behaviours shared by a particular people or society. It is constantly evolving.”, Primary aspects of culture - The rules are known to all, obeyed by all, but seldom –if ever- stated. They are implicit, taken forgranted and are generally out of awareness., Secondary aspects of culture - A series of assumptions, beliefs and rules which constitutes a groups’ cultural grammar. Known to members of the group but rarely to outsiders, Enculturation - The process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the values and behaviours appropriate in that cultural context, Tertiary aspects of culture - Explicit. The public façade of any culture, Acculturation - The change in a group’s culture or the change in individual psychology in response to a new environment or other factors., Devolution - “The loss of cultural traits, traditions, languages or religions”. Could also be referred to as ‘Cultural loss’, Ethnocentrism - viewing others from one’s own cultural perspective, with an implied sense of superiority based on an inability to accept the practices and beliefs of other cultures,

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