ANTH 1006 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sockeye Salmon, Jonathan Weiner, Atlantic Cod
Before the Sixties: Conrad Kottak
● Ethnography: firsthand study of local culture + social life
● Longitudinal fieldwork: long term, ongoing
● Location: Arembepe 1962 (Brazil) 55 miles from Salvador
● Big Well: where ppl got their drinking water
○ Or freshwater lagoon --> contamination led to parasites and malnutrition
● Build rapport: get locals to trust you enough to give truthful answers
○ Necessary before taking a census
● Project - race relations, what factors determined racial identity?
● Difference between sociologists & anthropologists
○ Sociologists: people fill out their own forms, distribute questionnaire by mail or hire
research assistants
○ Anthropologists: Do everything themselves
● Microproject: manageable, can produce research paper
● Malinowskian approach: holistic overview of a population
● Culture shock: set of feelings of being in an alien setting
● Life in Arembepe --> moon, weather,
○ Sea was source of life
Evolution in Action: Jonathan Weiner
● Darwin thought he was a plodder
○ Estimated new species would take 10-14k generations to arise
■ Recently has been proven to be much faster
● 1973 Peter & Rosemary Grant began study in Galapagos Island of Darwin’s finches
○ Main study site Daphne Major
○ Finches rapidly evolving, beak changes
○ BMP4 gene is what shapes the beaks (more = bigger beak)
● 1986 John A Endler studied Trinidadian guppies, Natural Selection in the Wild
● Examples of Rapid Evolution
○ Bighorn rams on Ram Mt in Alberta, Canada - since large rams are hunted, they have
grown smaller since
○ Atlantic cod had better chance of survival if they were small due to fishing
● Andrew Hendry McGill Uni study of Sockeye salmon
● Peppered moths
○ Certain moths on British Isles evolve to darker form when industrial polution darkened
tree trunks
○ After trees lightened again w/ clean air acts, moths lightened again
Dim Forest, Bright Chimps: Christophe Boesche, Hedwige Boesch-Achermann
● Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, 1985
● Chimps are meat eaters too
● Brutus dominant male of 70 member chip group
● Hunters will share meat with their friends and relatives
● Use of natural hammers to crack open hard shelled nuts
○ Tai forest chimps were first observed to do this
○ Diff than jane goodall’s chimps who only used sticks to get termites from mound
● Interesting: hunt cooperatively
● 1953 Raymond Dart: group hunting and cooperation key ingredients in evolution of Homo sapiens
Document Summary
Ethnography: firsthand study of local culture + social life. Location: arembepe 1962 (brazil) 55 miles from salvador. Big well: where ppl got their drinking water. Or freshwater lagoon --> contamination led to parasites and malnutrition. Build rapport: get locals to trust you enough to give truthful answers. Sociologists: people fill out their own forms, distribute questionnaire by mail or hire research assistants. Malinowskian approach: holistic overview of a population. Culture shock: set of feelings of being in an alien setting. Estimated new species would take 10-14k generations to arise. Recently has been proven to be much faster. 1973 peter & rosemary grant began study in galapagos island of darwin"s finches. Bmp4 gene is what shapes the beaks (more = bigger beak) 1986 john a endler studied trinidadian guppies, natural selection in the wild. Bighorn rams on ram mt in alberta, canada - since large rams are hunted, they have grown smaller since.