ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liminality, Class Discrimination, Knitting
25 Aug 2016
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Anthro 1ab3: intro to anthropology: identity, race and power. The systemic study of humankind in all times and places. Anthro is not just not about the study of far away people and places. To understand how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell crack and join gangs. Why are people motivated to cell crack: what is the cultural root of the problem; systemic issues within geographical context. Hendrick poinar: interaction beween humans and woolly mammoths. Twice dead: organ transplants and reinvention of death. Japan: against the notion of organ transplant. Long term filedwork - excavation (archaeologist and physical anthropologists or living/interacting with people for a year or more: interest in pre-history: have the ability to not only study present-day cultures but prehistoric peoples as well o. How did we come to be the way we are. What forces in the past has shaped us. What do all humans have in common etc. The study of contemporary cultures and societies.
