ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brain Death, Philippe Bourgois, Ancient Dna
4 Jul 2016
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Systematic study of humankind in all times and places. All about interconnectedness and connection of people and places in time. Holism how things connect everyone and everything. Understanding how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell crack and join gangs. People revealed they did it because they could not get a normal 9-5 job because of their race, etc: no access to healthcare, education, etc, drug dealing gave them control for their own studies and time. Looking at historical records about how mummification occurred in the past. Ct scanned mummies not the same as the records. Twice dead: organ transplants and reinvention of death. North america organ transplants are legal: can take place when someone is legally brain dead. Japan very rarely done: japanese don"t separate mind and body as life, just because brain is dead, doesn"t mean body is dead. Anthropology, geography, sociology, psychology = all study people. Most scientific of the sciences and most humane.
