ANT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paleolithic Diet, Groupset, Ethnocentrism
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Our genes and physiology are highly adapted to a paleolithic diet. Theorized that we have evolved in a hunter/gatherer lifestyle earlier on which is why human bodies are used to this diet now. Humans not adapted to modern diets (pizza, sugar snacks) leading to heart disease and diabetes. Economic development/globalization affected dietary patterns and gave a push to the global obesity epidemic. Especially significant in industrialized nations in 19th and 20th centuries. Recently emerged in developing nations (brazil, mexico) Explores how people are similar and different at the same time. Class definition: traditions passed through generations, passed through stories, can be in a specific place or geographically spread, people can have more than one culture. Cultural relativism: suspending judgement to better understand point of view of one from another culture. Ethnocentrism: belief that your own culture is superior to all others. Pitfalls include thinking that other cultures are better or worse. Through film/books/media, from things your parents have told you.
