ANP 220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Philippe Bourgois, Steven Pinker, Cousin Marriage
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Anthropogenic environment includes impacts on biophysical environments, biodiversity, and other resources. The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity. Ethics:moral questions about right and wrong and standards of appropriate behavior. Ethical dilemmas: what their research does to its subjects, (responsibility) Philippe bourgois - studies crack dealers in harlem illegality = ethical issue for ethnographers. Anthropologists committed to doing no harm (protecting informants identities) Beings in which biological, physiological and cultural processes interact in complex ways. Divide between biology and culture meshed in human mind. Humans all have shared biological outer limits, where they differ is across cultures because of influence of external factors. Patrilineage pays brides patrilineage for lost "work" or extra hands. Caste each of the hereditary classes of hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status. Varna: ideal model of social classification, expressed in terms of purity and pollution (brahman, kshatriya,
