ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neurology, Arapesh Languages
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Study the biological basis for human behavior, including evolution. Christians believe in one god, or why hindus hold the cow to be sacred. Can"t know right away if a particular slab of marble will be a column in a building or. Gertz says we have the raw, natural material (i. e. biology) to live a thousand di erent kind of lives, but in the end we only live one. That"s why science isn"t good enough to truly examine cultures/study anthropology. None of the cultural nuances that are related to sex (e. g. taboos against incest) Lady studied three very di erent cultures in new guinea. Grew up in new york, where the general social conception was that women gossip and talk about clothes, women are soft, men are hard/tough, etc. Wanted to see if it was like this everywhere in the world/if it was universal. She found out that the arapesh thought there was no di erence men and women.
