Holly F Mathews
Biographic Data
| ID | 607430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holly F Mathews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holly F |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathews |
| SIGNATURE | MATHEWS H F |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5217-334X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on a Community-Based, Palliative Care Lay Advisor Project for Latinos with Cancer
The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project for rural-dwelling adults with cancer in eastern North Carolina. This project trained Latino community leaders as palliative care lay advisors (PCLAs) to deliver information on cancer symptom management and advance care planning (ACP). Pandemic impacts were assessed using data from team meetings and fieldnotes, journal memos, online booster sessions,…
Four Kinds of Hard
Early integration of palliative care after a diagnosis of cancer improves outcomes, yet such care for Latino populations is lacking in rural regions of the United States. We used a participatory action research design with Latino community leaders from emerging immigrant communities in North Carolina to explore sociocultural perspectives on cancer and death. Thematic analysis was conceptualized as Four Kinds of Hard represented by four themes: Re…
Naomi R. Quinn July 22, 1939–June 23, 2019
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Does Pregnancy Increase Use and Awareness of Nutrition Information in Food Labels
Returning to Earth
Emotional arousal in the making of cultural selves
The highly variable selves that ethnographers have documented cross-culturally all build upon the universal human self described by neurobiologists. The link between cultural selfhood and this neurally-based self is emotional arousal. Arousal heightens the effect of synaptic plasticity, insuring that clusters of strong associations, or cognitive schemas, result from many fewer repetitions of the arousing experience. There are identifiable types o…
Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds
Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented fl ow of health information, technologies and people across national borders.Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease.This volume brings together cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and South Ame…
Cultural Broker or Collaborator
Medical anthropologists often act as cultural brokers for client groups by representing and explaining their interests to professionals in order to negotiate better access to care, improvements in screening and treatment services, and greater availability of educational programs. In these contexts, the anthropologist is in a position of power relative to clients, who are assumed to be unable to represent themselves as effectively as the advocate …
Family Interactions Among African American Prostate Cancer Survivors
Prostate cancer affects African Americans at a higher rate than any other ethnic group in the United States. Prostate cancer does not only affect the man with the disease but also affects those individuals who are closest to him, such as his family and friends. Open communication is valuable in coping with stressors that are affiliated with chronic illnesses. This article focuses on family and friend social support of men with prostate cancer. Da…
Increasing Use of Mammography Among Older, Rural African American Women
Objectives. A community trial was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program, a lay health advisor network intervention intended to increase screening among rural African American women 50 years and older. Methods. A stratified random sample of 801 African American women completed baseline (1993–1994) and follow-up (1996–1997) surveys. The primary outcome was self-reported mammography use in the…
Beliefs about and responses to childhood ear infections
Negotiating Cultural Consensus in a Breast Cancer Self-Help Group
This article describes a shared model of the breast cancer experience negotiated by the members of a spontaneously organized breast cancer self-help group in eastern North Carolina. In the course of sharing their personal experience narratives with one another, these women worked to negotiate points of agreement among the varying sources of knowledge and oftentimes conflicting belief systems they held about breast cancer. The synthetic model they…
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Methodological Approaches to the Study of Reasoning
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Coming to terms with advanced breast cancer
Negotiating Cultural Consensus in a Breast Cancer Self-Help Group
This article describes a shared model of the breast cancer experience negotiated by the members of a spontaneously organized breast cancer self-help group in eastern North Carolina. In the course of sharing their personal experience narratives with one another, these women worked to negotiate points of agreement among the varying sources of knowledge and oftentimes conflicting belief systems they held about breast cancer. The synthetic model they…
Applying Cognitive Decision Theory to the Study of Regional Patterns of Illness Treatment Choice
This article argues for the utility of cognitive decision modeling in assessing regional patterns of health behavior and, when combined with the explanatory modeling approach, in describing and analyzing more effectively sources of intracultural variation in choice within a region. A decision model developed in two intensively studied communities in rural Costa Rica was used to predict treatment choice in a third one representative of the rapid s…
Context‐Specific Variation in Humoral Classification
Anthropological studies of classification have focused attention on descriptions of the shared content of cultural categories rather than on the classification process itself. In this paper, data collected in Oaxaca, Mexico, are presented that demonstrate that humoral classification is organized by context such that the values assigned to items vary in accordance with the task to be performed. A variety of cognitive structures govern this process…
Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds
Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented fl ow of health information, technologies and people across national borders.Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease.This volume brings together cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and South Ame…
Increasing Use of Mammography Among Older, Rural African American Women
Objectives. A community trial was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program, a lay health advisor network intervention intended to increase screening among rural African American women 50 years and older. Methods. A stratified random sample of 801 African American women completed baseline (1993–1994) and follow-up (1996–1997) surveys. The primary outcome was self-reported mammography use in the…
We Are Mayordomo
This paper explores the empirical consequences of moving beyond the use of the domestic/public framework in analyzing gender roles in the cargo system of the Mexican community of San Miguel. Data demonstrating that religious cargos are held by household units on the basis of wealth are presented. Male and female sponsors are given joint title to office and have parallel roles and duties. In the newly emerging civil sphere, however, officials are …
Predicting Decision Outcomes
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Holly Mathews; Predicting Decision Outcomes: Have We Put the Cart before the Horse in Anthropological Studies of Decision Making?. Human Organization 1 March 1987; 46 (1): 54–61. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.46.1.04648436r95r1l65 Do…
Illness classification and treatment choice
James Clay Young. Medical Choice in a Mexican Village. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1981. xv + 233 pp. Tables, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $19.50
Emotional arousal in the making of cultural selves
The highly variable selves that ethnographers have documented cross-culturally all build upon the universal human self described by neurobiologists. The link between cultural selfhood and this neurally-based self is emotional arousal. Arousal heightens the effect of synaptic plasticity, insuring that clusters of strong associations, or cognitive schemas, result from many fewer repetitions of the arousing experience. There are identifiable types o…
Returning to Earth
Beliefs about and responses to childhood ear infections
Intracultural Variation in Beliefs About Gender in a Mexican Community
Methodological Approaches to the Study of Reasoning
Illness classification and treatment choice
James Clay Young. Medical Choice in a Mexican Village. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1981. xv + 233 pp. Tables, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $19.50
Context‐Specific Variation in Humoral Classification
Anthropological studies of classification have focused attention on descriptions of the shared content of cultural categories rather than on the classification process itself. In this paper, data collected in Oaxaca, Mexico, are presented that demonstrate that humoral classification is organized by context such that the values assigned to items vary in accordance with the task to be performed. A variety of cognitive structures govern this process…
Selected References on Rootwork
We Are Mayordomo
This paper explores the empirical consequences of moving beyond the use of the domestic/public framework in analyzing gender roles in the cargo system of the Mexican community of San Miguel. Data demonstrating that religious cargos are held by household units on the basis of wealth are presented. Male and female sponsors are given joint title to office and have parallel roles and duties. In the newly emerging civil sphere, however, officials are …
Rootwork
The traditional medicine of black Americans, often labeled "rootwork," has its origins in slave culture of the antebellum South. Its continued influence on the health behavior of black Americans is reported for rural areas of the South and for poor urban areas throughout the United States. The rootwork system combines a belief in the magical causation of illness with cures by sorcery and an empiric tradition stressing the natural causation of ill…
Intracultural Variation in Beliefs About Gender in a Mexican Community
Predicting Decision Outcomes
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Holly Mathews; Predicting Decision Outcomes: Have We Put the Cart before the Horse in Anthropological Studies of Decision Making?. Human Organization 1 March 1987; 46 (1): 54–61. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.46.1.04648436r95r1l65 Do…
Applying Cognitive Decision Theory to the Study of Regional Patterns of Illness Treatment Choice
This article argues for the utility of cognitive decision modeling in assessing regional patterns of health behavior and, when combined with the explanatory modeling approach, in describing and analyzing more effectively sources of intracultural variation in choice within a region. A decision model developed in two intensively studied communities in rural Costa Rica was used to predict treatment choice in a third one representative of the rapid s…
Women in the South
Human Motives and Cultural Models
A full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation and of culture have drawn from different theoretical paradigms. Typically, human motivation has been modelled on animal behaviour, while culture has been described as pure knowledge or symbol. The result has been insufficient appreciation of the role of culture in human motivation and a truncated vie…
Beyond the Second Sex
Remembering John Peterson's Contributions to the SAS
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Coming to terms with advanced breast cancer
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Book and Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority . Martha Balshem. Toxic Circles: Environmental Hazards from the Workplace into the Community . Helen E. Sheehan and Richard P. Wedeen , eds
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