Katherine Detwyler Summary

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Although Katherine Dettwyler was an American, she was very understanding and wanted to do all she could to focus on the health issues facing the Bambara. Through cultural relativism, Dettwyler was able to understand Malian culture and answer her research questions. This made me proud realizing that many anthropologists see things from another cultures point of view instead of looking down on them and making them feel that their traditional ways are wrong. Dettwyler inspired me to also give biomedicine a chance in my life.
Dettwyler stresses that poor infant feeding and weaning practices in Mali leads to chronic childhood malnutrition. Due to a poor immune system, children are dying of malaria and tetanus. The main cause of childhood malnutrition

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