ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heterosexuality, Gray Langur, Anthropomorphism
11 Oct 2012
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Essays: minimum of one class article, plus 6 anthropology journal articles or books. Butyou can refer to textbooks to find other, appropriate sources. 6 sources include: periodicals/journals, edited books, ethnographies. Also, you may include newspaper articles, magazines, internet sites and blogs. Appears in an anthropology journal, book/article is written by someone who labels themselves as an anthropologist. Use: anthrosource, anthropology plus, bibliographies of recent articles, google. Library, click anthropology, click find articles, click first two, Workshop for rough draft of paper is on november 16th! Problematic role of science in promoting the body and human behaviours as natural. Nature theories helped along by evolutionary thinkers (darwinism) Herbert spencer: misappropriated a lot of this work. Proving the naturalness of human behaviours and bodies: by using evolutionary paradigms to explain human behaviour and through animal studies. Evolutionary paradigms to prove naturalness of gender. Physical anthro: family hominidae (humans, ancestors, fossils of precursors to homosapiens)
