ANTH-110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Model Organism, Androcentrism
25 Jul 2020
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In light of this invisibility, feminist anthropologists have called for an engendered approach to prehistory and archaeology. Many of these evolutionary views have been reevaluated through a reassessment of primate models and by applying a cross-cultural perspective (i. e. ethnographic) on male and female behaviour: baboons the animal model for early human behaviour. Baboons are often used as the animal model for early human behaviour despite criticisms of using this primate group as reflective of early humans. Such criticisms have led some primatologists to refer to modeling early human behaviour after baboons as the baboonization of early human life : various biased interpretations of men and women that have dominated archaeological interpretations will also be reassessed. By applying an engendered approach to archaeology and prehistory, feminist archaeologists are re-evaluating androcentric models and see adaptation through human history as a collaborative effort between men and women.
