ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Andrew Wade, Woolly Mammoth, Philippe Bourgois
22 Jun 2016
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Lecture 1: introduction to race, religion and conflict. The systematic study of humankind in all times and places. Not just about far away people and places. Why: understanding how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell crack and join gangs, anthropologist philippe bourgois. Dr. hendrick poinar (mcmaster: ancient dna, disease in the past, evolution of disease, bringing back the wooly mammoth. Humans are the reason why wooly mammoths went extinct, so is it ethical to bring them back: the black death. Dr. andrew wade (mcmaster: mummy-making myths busted, we look at ancient myths and evidence based on herodotus, as technology evolved, we learned that the ways the mummified based upon herodotus word is not true. Twice dead: organ transplants and reinvention of death. North american organ transplants are legal. Japan very rarely done: a person is connected to much more than the brain which is different from what western society believes. Mind/body split: western views on death and transplants.
