ANT-2000 Lecture Notes - Jane Goodall, Gombe Stream National Park, Franz Boas
Document Summary
Culture- cultural knowledge marked by progressive acquisition and addition. Humankind not different in how their brain works, but by their cultural groups. Curator and lecturer american museum of natural history. Created four field organization of american anthropology. First professor of anthropology at columbia university. Critic of culture evolutionism-that all cultures evolve similarly. Shared by a group (as a member of society) Passed down from generation to generation: much of it is during childhood. Louis leaky obtained research funding for jane goodall (1960), for research in using information gathered from wild apes to regenerate the behavior of human ancestors. If a behavior is present in two related species, it is likely that this behavior was present in the last common ancestor (lca) Chimpanzees were thought to be herbivores, but jane found that some of them had tools to kill and eat animals (termites) (using wands to eat termites)
