[ANTHROP 1AB3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (15 pages long)
5 Oct 2016
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Philippe bourgeois is an anthropologist studies gangs, he went to east harlem; it was one of the poorest place in the states. Some people had to become a crack dealer or a drug dealer. Studying past societies too; hendrick poinar from mcmaster, reconstructing the genome of the black death, disease in the past. Black death is the plague that comes from rodents/ fleas. Interested in human mummies, intentional and unintentional mummies: intentional; wants to preserve the body, unintentional: the weather, rolling down can preserve the body. Interviewed people living in north america and living in japan about organ transplants. In japan, transplants are rare and people look down upon. Sports celebrities (swimming and figure skating) , nationalism and identity. Methods that they use make it different: long term fieldwork; a year or 2. Can be exaction if youre an archaeologist or physical anthologist: interacting/living with people for a year or more ( cultural or linguistics, develop a bond.
