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| What are the four main subfields of anthropology? |
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| Biological, Cultural, Linguistic, and Archaeology |
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| Who is Malinowski and what is Functionalism? |
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| He is the founder of modern Anthropology and every system in a culture has a function. |
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| What is the difference between Ethnography vs. Ethnology? |
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| Ethnography studies a specific culture, Ethnology compares cultures. |
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| What is the difference between race and ethnicity? |
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| Ethnicity is the learned social behaviors... Race is your place of origin and cannot change. |
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| Idea of evolution and ancient Greek views on Evolution. |
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Democritus: claimed humans came from fish and the idea of atomism.
Plato: Actual organism is reality.
Aristotle: Humans did not evolve? |
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| What is the difference between Class and Caste? |
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| Class you can change, caste you cannot. |
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| Bible placed earth in center of the universe. |
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| Copernicus and Galileo and Heliocentrism? |
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| Believed earth revolved around sun, got burned to death. |
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| Lamarckianism Vs. Darwinism |
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| Lamarck was the first thinker to propose theory of evolution, Darwin thought of natural and sexual selection. |
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| Evolutionary change based on reproductive success of individuals within a species. Accuired traits. |
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| Adaptation and Speciation |
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| Species look and act how they do from adapting to environment. |
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Two types: male-male competition and female choice.
Males fight for females- why they are bigger and stronger. (Polygynous society) |
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| Culture is learned and composed of concepts. |
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| Every individual must learn right from wrong. We learn the culture through symbols and artificats are objects created by people. |
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Culture created humans.
Apes learn to use tools from their parents. |
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| Physical, eomtional, and intellectual parts of brain. |
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| Parasitism, predator-prey, social power, institutional, military, technological, idealogical. |
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| Dominance in apes an ape social systems |
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Chimp: Both males and females have dominace hierarchies. Physical violence, intimidation, and making allies is important.
Bonobo: female dominated. Males rely on mothers for support. Not violent. |
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| Animals that live in social groups have huge advantage over solitary animals. |
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| Cannibals and Kings first 3 chapters. |
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Ch. 1 is about population growth.
Ch. 2 talkes about archeological evidence- incredible tools, sophisticated hunting, pros and cons of village life, killing the old, and limited reproduction in huner gatherer societies. |
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