ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Essentialism, Human Nature, Reproductive Technology
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Essentialism: claims of identity and claims of social connection. Essentialism: inborne natural essence that makes us who we are. To explain ourselves and our relations. (human nature) Through biology we discover and understand the natural differences and similarities. Through genetic we can undercover what makes us human. Gene splicing, performance and enhancing drugs, sex change operations: trying to change ourselves through science and technology. Key to who we are resides within an individual. We are who we are born to be. Similarities and differences that we consider natural are actually the products of society and culture according to anthropology. Who we are is a social and cultural considered. And what are their origins: nature vs. nurture, nature: who are we due to our inner selves, born that way, nurture: we are who we are due to our cultural or social constitution.
