[ANTHROP 1AA3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (59 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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The study of past societies and their cultures using material remains (i. e. , tools, ceramics, sites). A culturally constructed form of identity that consists of the roles people are expected to play because of their sex. How people internalize and enact attitudes and expectations that are associated with their gender category. Anthropologists used to argue that there is no society in which men and women are fully equal. Increasing obsession of being very specific about the criteria of death: unreceptive and unresponsive, no spontaneous movement or respiration, no reflexes, a flat eeg (electrical activity in the brain, no circulation to or within the brain. Anthropology: the study of differences and similarities, both biological and cultural, in human populations. Anthropology is concerned with typical biological and cultural characteristics of human populations in all periods and in all parts of the world. Holism: a view that culture consists of both behaviour and beliefs and how they are interrelated.
