Book Review: Golomski, C. (2018). Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom

For this assignment, you are expected to read and analyze an ethnography from the list provided below. You will then write a 4–5 -page review of the book, highlighting how the author uses an anthropological analysis in their theoretical framework, methodology, and analysis. You are to define and describe the anthropological approach and explain how an anthropological viewpoint changes your understanding of the health problem.

 
Chosen ethnographies:
 
• Golomski, C. (2018). Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom (Illustrated edition). Indiana University Press.
Your book review must address the following components:
 
▪ What is the central question or topic of the book?
 
▪ What arguments is the author is making?  
 
▪ Describe the author’s data and process of data collection.
 
▪ Choose at least three concepts from class and describe how the author makes use of them in the analysis. Be sure to give specific examples of how the author is making use of these anthropological concepts. Concepts to choose from are:
 
• culture
• cultural relativism
• ethnocentrism
• emic vs. etic
• medical pluralism
• social authority
• cultural authority
• therapy-managing group
• therapeutic itinerary
 

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