ANTHRCUL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trobriand Islands, Biological Anthropology, Genetic Drift

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

Document Summary

Robert redfield: studied tepoztlan, mexico and found that the people valued harmony, religion, and family; emic. Oscar lewis: restudied tepoztlan, and found that competition tore people apart; etic. Richard lee: a primary ethnographer of the ju/hoansi in africa. Hosted a feast and bragged about his cow. The people of that culture were not fond of bragging. Annette weiner: found different patterns within the trobriand islanders than. Bronislaw malinowski: studied the trobriand islanders during 1915-1918. Carl linnaeus: stated that environment changes gradually over time. The grand canyon eroded by a river over many years. Law of independent assortment-most genes are inherited separate of one another. John-baptiste lamarck: theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics- individuals who change during their lifetime can pass along those acquired changes through inheritance to their offspring. Charles darwin: natural selection; darwin didn"t know the sources of variation of the mechanisms of heredity.