Anthropological Religion.

The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category

Christmas: An anthropological lens

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

Ethical, psychosocial and anthropological

1027 December 2013, Vol. 103, No. 12 (Suppl 1) SAMJ Women of advanced maternal age (AMA, >34 years old) are at an increased risk of having an infant with a chromosome abnormality, but only a minority of older South African women have access to genetic counselling and testing for such abnormalities during pregnancy. These women face difficult choices relating to their risks and options. AMA in i...

A Symposium on Religion : Religion and Society

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

[Child depression: anthropological approach].

OBJECTIVE To understand the sociocultural meanings of childhood depression, from the medical-scientific concept of the disease. METHODS This was a qualitative study carried out in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2003. It consisted of ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews with eight psychiatrists from a public health service and nine relatives (p...