Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Minutiae, Potlatch, Enculturation
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Looks at the things we do and how we think which changes how we do things. The idea of calling someone in the same grocery storethe strong obligation to contact someone once they know you have received their contact: it changes the way your life goes because of changes in expectations. There are other societies where this is not the case. The important thing to remember is that archaeologists are always looking at the whole picture. Neolithic - the time when farming started to spread throughout an area. Mary and lewis leakey were a couple that did a lot of research in a part of africa where the geographic layers had moved and exposed many fossils. They did decades of research in this are arthopithecus africanus - laeoli footsteps. Margaret mead - conducted research on living populations such as the sexual practices of other practices: how children were treated in samoan societies.