Anthropology 2222F/G Lecture Notes - Cognitive Anthropology, Blockbusting, Sociobiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2222F/G
• Professor: Peter Timmins

Document Summary

Kruper and marks article anthropologists unite is written in response to the aaa"s decision to remove the term. Science from the long range plan document for the association. They say people in the subfields do very different things and for a long time they didn"t really work together until two radical movements provoked a confrontation. Socio-biology was one of these and it threatened to overtake all the human sciences and to include them under biology and there was postmodernism with cultural theorists who were raising questions about the usefulness of. There were also controversies around sex, violence, and race and the mead-freeman debate reopened questions about adolescence and sexuality (made people feel they had to choose nature or nurture) There were debates over the question of whether humans were inherently violent and prone to war and these divides created animosities between people in the field and the general public.