ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marcel Mauss, Ethnocentrism, Primatology
13 Jan 2018
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What is anthropology? the systematic study of humankind in all times and places anthropology. Why study them? to understand how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell crack and join gangs anthropologist phillippe bourgois. Hendrik poinar (mac anthropology) ancient dna; disease in the past; evolution of disease; sequencing genome of black. Wrote twice dead: organ transplants and reinvention of death . Japan- transplants are rarely preformed, but not illegal. Sense of personhood resides in all your limbs and organs. Physical (biological) anthropology studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human species, past and present. Forensic: accidental death, crime scene investigation, human rights investigations. Paleoanthropology: the study of the human fossil record. Archaeology the study of past societies and their cultures using material remains (ie. ceramic tools, sites) Cultural anthropology the study of contemporary cultures and societies culture is defined as transmitted, learned behaviour.
