Question

A medical anthropologist finds that a community (community 1) living in a tropical locale has a low incidence of malaria. The anthropologist further realizes that a second community (community 2) a couple of miles away, that also has some prior members from community 1, has a higher incidence of malaria (members who move to this community from community 1 get malaria). After considering this phenomena and living among the communities, the anthropologist learns and observes that community 1 has a tradition that involves building houses on stilts. The higher elevation of the homes is higher than the air level in which mosquitoes frequently fly. The anthropologist's conclusion is that community 1 has an adaptive advantage passed through their building tradition which protects against malaria.

The framework through which this anthropologist examined the malaria issues between the communities is called?________

What is the one element or focus from this investigation within the vignette which helped you determine the framework that this anthropologist was working within _______?

Answer 1

Biocultural framework is the one through which anthropologist analysed issues between the communities. Since community 1 has a cultural practice of building elevated house to reduce mosquito biting, they conducted a biocultural framework study

Malaria is a mosquito bourne disease since the focus of element was biting of malaria bourne mosquitoes. By analysing how communities protected themselve from mosquito biting gave the difference