ANTH 2170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sperm Bank, Plastic Surgery, Human Reproduction
28 Nov 2013
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Anthropology 2710 6. 0: sex, gender & the body. Arm-chair anthropology: a person who has book knowledge but not actual hands on experience. /she might know theory but has never actually tried it out themselves. Anthromorphism: the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal or object. Cultural relativism: understanding the ways of other cultures and not judging their practices because of your culture. Fieldwork: to live among certain people to learn about their ways and culture. Louis henry morgan: social evolutionist who focused on the evolutionary scale (savagery barbarism civilized. Under savagery would be hunter/gatherers and considered the low way of living, first nations would be within barbarism and europeans would be the civilized. ) Man the hunter: a model of human evolution proposed by lancaster and washburn. Men are the ones to go out and obtain the food, this idea helped play into gender roles showing men are the only ones who are aggressive. (mascia-leess & black)
