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physical anthropology
Primatology
Paleoanthropology
Archaeology
Forensic Anthropology
Human Variation
Cultural Anthropology:
Ethnology
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
research methods
observation, case studies, interviews, and surveys, digging for fossils, experiments, and technical analysis
Creationists
Religious explanation
Almost all religious communities have an explanation about origin of man
The Book of Genesis
All life was created by God
KEY PEOPLE: Leonardo DaVinci, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilee
began 10000 years ago
evolutionists
Developed by Charles Darwin
Humans evolved over millions of years by adapting to their environment
Evolved from apes
Creationists: Non-Fundamentalists
reject creation from the Bible
God was responsible for creation over millions of years
Interventionists
Humans are evolving because of fossil fuels
an ‘intervention’ by a super intelligent being changing the apes
KEY PEOPLE: Alfred Russell Wallace
“missing link” evolution
Carolus Linnaeus:
First person to classify species
Charles Darwin
Natural Selection: all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors. forced to evolve or go extinct. voyage of the Beagle.
Gregor Mendel:
tweaked natural selection with genetics
Variation
forms vary genetically
Inheritance
Genetic traits are inherited from parents
Paleoanthropology
Study of human ancestors based on evidence from evolutionary past
Lucy
Donald Johanson found a skeleton in Ethiopia that was 40% complete.
Australopithecus afarensis
Earliest confirmation of hyoid bone
bipedalism
Darwins theory
Humans first evolved in Africa
Louis & Mary Leakey found a skull dating back to Kenya with Radiometric Dating
Primatology
Study of the behaviour, biology, evolution, and culture of non-human primates
Differences between humans and other primates
chimps:
- large teeth
- hairy
- long arms short legs
- big feet
humans:
- compex language
- larger skull
- bipedal
- technological advancements
Dian Fossey
Leakey hired her and she went to Rwanda to study gorillas
imitated gorillas
identified gorillas by their nose prints
Discovered:
highly social with personalities and family
Jane Goodall
Leaky took on Goodall as an assistant,
she did a study on chimpanzees in Tanzania
discovered:
eat meat
have emotions
make tools
Birute Galdikas
Convinced Leakey to do a study on orangutans
Discovered:
females have offspring every 8 years
researched birth cycles
orangatangs sleep in nests
concept that non-humans can have a culture
Natural Selection
Variation - every species has a lot of variety within it
Heritability - individuals pass on traits to their offspring
Environmental fitness - individuals who are better adapted to their environment will pass on their traits
race
to try to organize or understand differences between people.
Differences based on Geography
traits develop to help individuals survive and reproduce in a particular environment
ex: sickle cell anemia
study through blood type
Forensic Anthropology
study the bones and bodies to figure out who the person was, how they died, when they died
Neanderthals
- lived all over Europe
- adapted to cold environments
- larger brains, muscles, large teeth,
- made stone tools and lived in caves
ethnocentrism
: free of assumptions of other cultures
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Franz Boaz
Everyone sees other cultures through the lens of their own culture
cannot compare two cultures because each culture has its own rules
functionalism
how all structures or institutions in society work together to meet the needs of individuals
- People have ROLES to play that balance that equilibrium
- social change can disrupt the balance of society
- equilibrium is between norms and roles
Margaret Mead
study of Samoan adolescent girls examining whether stresses during adolescence were caused by adolescence itself or by society
CULTURAL MATERIALISM
states that material or conditions within the environment influence how a culture develops, creating the ideas and ideology of a culture
FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY
Compared culture to see how many were dominated by men, how many were dominated by women, and how many were egalitarian
POSTMODERNISM
The belief that it is impossible to have any true knowledge about the world
RITE OF PASSAGE
a ceremony, ritual, or event that marks an individual’s passage from one stage of life to another.
1. SEGREGATION
2. TRANSITION
3. INCORPORATION
marriage, puberty
Kinship
connections and relationships between people who are related to each other by blood, marriage, or adoption.
matrilineal
patrilineal
Bilineal