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Tepotzlan, Mexico
Harmony, cooperation, family importance
different training from Oscar Lewis = different findings |
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| reevaluated Redfields data, found a competitive and self-interested group in the Tepotzlans. |
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primary ethnographer of Ju'/hoansi
boastful of the ox he killed so they told him it was horrible and disgusting - "insult the meat" |
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Trobriand Islanders during 70's
observed things Malinowski missed(women's economic importance) b/c she was a women and changes in her time allowed women's status to be recognized |
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1915-1918 in Trobriand Islands
biased findings b/c he was a western, white male so he thought women were only important reproductively |
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Swedish botanist who developed scheme of classification that but humans in same category as apes
he classified by similarities and differences in physical characteristics |
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before Darwin
found dominant and recessive traits
heredity through genes
Pea pod experiment
famous after death |
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founded idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics
thought individuals who change during life passed along changes to offspring |
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his finches
evolutionary theory
applied process to living things
natural selection to explain change over time: the unfit die out
He didn't know sources of variation or mechanisms of heredity |
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Studied Yanomami
greeted by naked locals so he undressed but he was "swinging" around b/c they were wearing string |
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| Stress and hypertension caused by racism |
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| interested in personal space definition in different cultures |
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| study of biological and cultural diversity of humankind, past and present, and throughout time and space |
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| embracing all of the human condition |
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immersing oneself in a culture
living among people and doing what they do to better understand them
can be exempt from some rules
helps learn the real from the ideal |
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EMIC POV
provide a view of cultural life and help you when you get things wrong
an informant |
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cultural anthro: ethnography, studies human society and culture
Archaeology: reconstruct culture through remains, indirect observance
Linguistic Anthropology: study of language in social and cultural context
Biological Anthropology: studies human ecology and biological diversity |
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action-oriented, devoted to problem solving
example: forensic anthropology |
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local point of view
insider's account |
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ethnographer's perspective
outsider's interpretation, emphasizing ethnographer's explanations and categories |
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| the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them |
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| fieldwork: data collection over long amounts of time and usually in different culture |
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charting kinship relations
key to understanding how social system works
good way to build rapport with locals |
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| something that represents something else |
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| basic features/characteristics of a culture |
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symbolic, shared, integrated, learned, levels
time, space, perception, cognition |
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behavior in one culture should not be judged by standards of another
tool used to understand cultural variations and behavior |
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| idea that God created the earth and everything in it in 6 days |
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| Earth has been affected in the past by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope |
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| natural forces at work today also explain past events |
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judging other cultures using ones' own cultural standards
prevents critical assessment of selves and romanticizes others' lifestyles |
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| an exchange of cultural features between groups in firsthand contact |
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| process of learning culture from experience |
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| borrowing of cultural traits between societies |
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| accelerating interdependence of nations in the world system today |
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| cultural patterns of time, space, perception, and cognition |
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time: fluid, dynamic, changeable
space: empty space in feng shui, radiating cities in Europe, grids in US; functions
perception: what you see
cognition: organizing and understanding what you see |
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| relative and absolute frames of spacial reference |
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| left and right(relative) vs. North, West, South, and East(absolute) |
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| belonging to minority of 2 groups that you fit into |
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| Principle of Independent Assortment |
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| traits are inherited independently of one another |
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| appendage sizes vary by climate, longer in warm and shorter in cold |
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| body size larger in colder climates |
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| noses longer in colder and drier climates |
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| loss of trait through chance |
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| one segment of population founding a new population |
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skin pigmentation that protects against UV radiation
sunscreen helps with the melanin deficient |
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| sum of all genetic material in a breeding population |
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| phenotype lives on b/c best suited for environment |
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change in DNA
can be spontaneous or induced |
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| exchange genes between populations through mating |
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| how gene is physically expressed |
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a dominant and recessive allele
Aa |
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either both alleles are dominant or recessive
AA or aa |
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| more likely to be expressed |
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| only expressed if both alleles recessive |
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| gradual shift in gene frequencies between neighboring populations |
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| ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis |
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| Spiritual > humans > servants > animals > plants > rocks |
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| interferes with blood's ability to store oxygen |
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| changes in activity, expression, and function of genes without alterations to DNA |
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| application of knowledge and technique of physical anthropology to problems of medico legal significance |
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ethnographic field methods: living among them
kula: a repeated exchange of two wearable items. white shells and red shells move in opposing baths
women's wealth: husband gives wife and sisters bundles and gardens, they inherit trees. Man dependent on her wealth. |
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witchcraft: used to explain bad things that happen
benge: way of communicating with an oracle by poisoning a chicken, can only be done by a man
time and space: witchcraft magic only works at a distance
colonialism: too close to neighbors and cash crops weakened kinship ties |
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contested violence: brawls governed by rules, not the men's purpose
hekura spirits: cause illnesses by consuming part of one's soul
cultural change: introduction of diseases and miners to society, loss of territory, need help from outsiders now |
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| race: seen as a race even though they were from all over |
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