ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Infant Mortality
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Venda of south africa (jack blacking: baruya of highland new guinea (m. godelier) Our bodies reach most stable integrated form 18-30. Aging appears to be accumulative ability to reproduce. In real life, our environment overshadow, natural biological process. Being born and dying varies from one culture to another, while aging is a natural process, but it"s also a cultural and social process. Meaning we assign to age and aging, makes us who we are humans. Aging categories; childhoods, youth adolescent, teenagers, adulthood, aging. Starting at conception we begin to age, and stop when we die. Social and cultural worlds that demarcate this continuous process. We carve it into nifty categories, we mark it. Where we draw them, how to move between them. In the west, minor vs. adult, physiologically, transition is seamless 18 to 19, huge difference between two categories that we insist on.
