ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Forensic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Blended Learning
8 Jan 2019
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Lecture one- introduction to sex, food and death. Put 1aa3 in subject line, put name and student # in email, don"t ask if it"s on. Email karen about tests and ta"s about assignments. Sometimes a film will be assigned and then there is no class the syllabus, has to be from mcmaster email. What we"ll be studying: making food (hunters, gatherers), producing agriculture and the reasons, food fetishes (sexual and non-sexual) Masculinity/femininity, gender binaries, political conflicts, plural gender, nature and nurture of sex, appropriate sexual behaviour based on culture. Understand how anthropologists investigate issues relating to sex, food, and. Think critically about issues and develop your writing skills. Forensic anthropology, what can we learn from a deceased body, how to extract info from the bones, death from some cultures (mexico, day of the dead), human evolution (biological anthropology) Midterm (in class) -- feb. 27 (25%) 50 multiple-choice questions.
