ANTH 1001 : Anthropology Exam1 Notes
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Anthropology: origin and evolution of people; evolution and its psychological basis; human prehistory; human diversity; origin and development of human culture through the rise of civilization. Introduction: biocultural approach: relationship between biology and culture to understand what it is to be human. (biological and cultural factors, holistic: the influence of genes, what you believe in, looks at all aspects, the whole individual. Looks at the complete system, not just parts of a system. There"s no way like the american way - extreme view its own standards and not to your own. Opposite of ethnocentrism, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. cultures vary on what is important: examples: women fatten their girls, mutilation of women"s body parts, gay, fieldwork: anthropologists are collecting data. Doesn"t have to be exotic or: the ok hand signal can mean two different things, ok or asshole , 3. The study of the past based on going somewhere foreign.
