ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paleopathology, Primatology, Participant Observation
17 Mar 2017
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______ and _____ have important distinctions - illness and disease. ______ plays an important role in decomposition - temperature (increases chemical reaction) ________ gives you a physical understanding in anthropology - fieldwork. _______________ is the process through which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviours of another (usually dominant) group. 3 major transitions of epidemiological - 1) food production. 3 reasons for bipedalism - -food carrying and baby carrying. 3 things that slows up decomposition - -burying the body. 3 things that speeds up decomposition - -rodents eating the body. Nutritional status, immune response, age, social and environmental conditions. 5 other sources of evidence of disease - argriculture. Algonquin - celebrate the dead with a feast. Androgyne - both male and female or neither. Anthropologists have investigated rates of suicide in canada and the united states, and have found that the highest suicide rates are among indigenous (first nations) populations.
