ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture 1: 1AB3- Week 1
13 Jan 2019
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25% - midterm test in class (feb. 25) 25% - final test in class (april 1) ** note that there is no final exam in the april exam period. Anthropology: anthropos = humankind", the systematic study of humankind in all times and places. So what is anthropology: study of human cultures, past and present. - to understand how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell. Crack dealers in east harlem, nyc crack and join gangs: anthropologist philippe bourgois. Extracting ancient dna: hendrick poinar (mcmaster anthropology) ancient dna; disease in the past; evolution of disease; sequencing genome of the black death. Wrote twice dead: organ transplants and reinvention of death . North american organ transplants are legal; mind/ body split. Anthropology, geography, sociology, psychology all study people. Linguistic anthropology: studies the construction and use of language by human societies, descriptive linguistics how language works, sociolinguistics the relationship between language and social behaviour.
