ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Handia (Drink), Essentialism
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Idea that there is something essential within us that makes us who we are. Explaining biological process within human bodies we must recognize differences between races. Sometimes we imagine that we can change human nature through things like gene splicing things like sex change operations or activity enhancement drugs. Overall point is that: key to who i am resides within and is natural. See these as cultural truth and realities which require explanations. Genetic and biological essentialism: similarities and differences are often considered natural and inborn but are actually products of natural society and culture. Who we are is a social and cultural concern. Categories discussing social concern: gender, age, personhood, time, kinship, race, and ethnicity. Idea of who we are is due to our innate constitution. Nurture: we are who we are due to our cultural and social constitution, we learn to be who we are.
