Anthropology 3332F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Only Hope
6 Dec 2017
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30% multiple choice, tf, fill in the blank. Broad question with reference to material from throughout the course. Don"t forget only hope and china prep". Dealing with a central paradox of human life We envision people in society as having an immortality. But we as people as destined to die. One way we looked at it was through adolescence. Rites of passage that mark the transitions of adolescence in different contexts Remember video of that camp of rite of passage. Schlegel"s biosocial" approach, and her use of cross-cultural comparison to make her case. Fong"s book not just on adolescence, it"s on state policy and how everyone experiences the life course (parents, teachers, kids etc) Fajans on the banning of png, and on how they make themselves. Zhu on mothering expectant mothers in china. Inhorn on middle eastern masculinities in the age of nrts (new reproductive technologies) Back to lamb on successful aging and the possibility of meaningful decline.
