ANTH 474 Lecture 2: JAN 19
16 Feb 2017
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> assignment midterm: ads of stereotypes of body types, women, men, elderly, disable bodies, Magazines, news papers, (no internet) any public library, examples, 3500/4000 words. Final and midterm: course reading and class lectures, short questions, essay questions. Great emphasis on learning between humans and not instincts. Education ends up shaping humans in a certain way. > wild children feral, kept isolated or lost in the forest, When found, no language, no exposure to language = no language. Wont know what to do with their bodies, hoe to use their bodies. Russia: raised by dogs, dog behavior, barked, tuned like a dog. Language, body, food preferences: taught through culture, activated by culture. We seem to have a language facility, a kind of mutation, Young children learn faster, the brain is more open to receiving information and languages. Brain in working on language even before we are born.
