ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Franz Boas, Bipedalism, Historical Particularism
25 Mar 2014
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Sex, gender and the body: cross-cultural approaches to the body, gender, sexuality and kinship. Lecture 3 the animal body sept 21. Nature/nurture debate in anthropology: nature theories were helped by evolutionary thinkers at the time. Problematic role of science in promoting the body and human behaviours as. Researchers attempt to prove" the naturalness of human behaviours and bodies: By using evolutionary paradigms to explain human behaviour. Evolutionary paradigms to prove" the naturalness of gender. Family hominidae: i. e. humans, often time, within this family, we include humans, human ancestors, fossils, chimps, gorillas, etc. Primates that don"t have tails: habitual bipedalism walking at least some of the time on two feet. Women seemed to be the gatherer collecting wild fruits, plants and supplementing the main diet of meat. They argued that hunting by many of our early ancestors stimulated the evolution of hominids. Washburn and lancaster in 1960s 1970s.
