ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Franz Boas, Stanley Diamond, Breastfeeding
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Foragers health status ---- see whitaker ancient bodies . Farming: women give birth to workers, more nutritional stress, higher infant mortality. The worst mistake in the history of the human race. stanley diamond. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence. Population about 1 billion at start of industrial revolution now 7 billion. Fecal transplants success in treating intestinal ailment. An infusion of feces from a healthy person is much more effective than an antibiotic in treating c. difficile, a recurrent intestinal infection. Humans part of the cultural construction of the world. All human, but not all the same. Ethnocentrism judging other cultures using your own way of life as the standard. Cultural relativism attempting to understand other ways of life in their own terms. Family, community, nation = scales of categories. Classifications of humans combined with perceived differences:
