ANTHROP 1AB3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Ethnocentrism, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
12 Oct 2018
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ANTHROP 1AB3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Lecture 1
What to do
• Log into Avenue to learn as soon as possible.
• Make an enhanced insight account.
• Begin to understand readings and start preparing for discussions.
• Make sure to make notes on your readings.
Thursday 10th September 2015
Lecture 2
What is Anthropology?
• Anthropology is the study of people
• Anthropos: Humankind
• Logia: study of
• The systematic study of humankind in all times and places
• Not just about the study of far away people and places
• We study all people from all places.
• Anthropology was the study on non western people and places and sociology was the
study of your own society in the late ’s, this is no longer the case.
• Diverse discipline, studies all people and all people
• Described as a bicultural approach, looks at the way biology and culture shapes our
worldview.
Philippe Bourgois
• Study them to understand how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell crack and
join gangs.
• Anthropologist who studied Crack Dealers in East Harlem NYC.
• Did field work in the ’s and ’s with dangerous criminals, he was working with these
people.
• It took him a year to gain the trust of the people, he waited to understand both internal
and external forces and how these things limit the opportunities for these people.
• He was a cultural anthropologist.
Hendrik Poinar
• Watch the Interview with Hendrik Poinar about ancient DNA and bubonic plague
• Talks about the evolution of diseases.
• Uncovered the causes of the black death.
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• Goes out with teams of people and goes to various cemeteries in Europe where there
were several plague victims.
• He attempts to remove DNA from these people, then he compares the ancient disease
to more modern cases.
• Wants to compare how it affects us differently and the changes in the diseases.
• Also sequences the DNA of the wholly Mammoth.
Dr. Andrew Wade
• Archaeologist involved in cataloging and examine all mummies in existence around the
world.
• Trying to preserve them and make the information available online while receiving as
much information as possible.
Margaret Lock
• Looks at organ transplants and how different cultures view the practice
• Wrote twice dead organ transplants in 2001
• Did work as a cultural anthropologist and did interviews and asked them about organ
transplants
• She did this in north America and in japan to understand cultural reasons for this.
• Argues that in North American society, we think of ourselves as two different entitles,
we view ourselves and identify within the brain.
• When brain death occurs, we are no longer people, your humanness is gone so we are
able to give up our organs.
• In japan your identity is attached to your whole body, even without your brain, a warm
body is still not a corpse.
Social Sciences
• Anthropology, Geography, Psychology all study people so how is anthropology
different?
• Has distinct methods that are not used in other studies
• Advocate the the uses of long term fieldworks like excavation.
• This is dealing with living or dead people for more that a year.
• Many archaeologists do this, the spend their careers working in a specific area for a long
time.
• Cultural anthropologist who closely work with people and try to understand their life
and culture personally.
• Another differentiation is the interest in prehistory, anthropologists have the ability to
study not only present day cultures and prehistoric cultures.
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Document Summary
What to do: log into avenue to learn as soon as possible, make an enhanced insight account, begin to understand readings and start preparing for discussions, make sure to make notes on your readings. It took him a year to gain the trust of the people, he waited to understand both internal and external forces and how these things limit the opportunities for these people: he was a cultural anthropologist. Dr. andrew wade: archaeologist involved in cataloging and examine all mummies in existence around the world, trying to preserve them and make the information available online while receiving as much information as possible. In japan your identity is attached to your whole body, even without your brain, a warm body is still not a corpse. Ths also means exploring all integrated aspects of society: they would work with the people they are studying and try to understand how something specific relates to all other aspects of life.
