discovering anthropology revision resource
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This is a resource put together for students of Discovering Anthropology at the Durham University Foundation Centre.TRANSCRIPT
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other resources
reading pack (available in duo)
YouTube playlist
Pinterest pinboards for each week
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What is anthropology?
• The study of mankind– Evolution– History– Cross-Cultural– Observation & Participation
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Four major sub-fields
• Biological• Linguistic• Cultural• Archaeological
• In pairs, how are evolution and observation important in each?
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Evolution
• Evolution is fact• How evolution works is theory
• What do we mean by theory?– Tentative, subject of argument– Based on evidence– Falsifiable
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Darwin’s 3 postulates
– The struggle for existence
– Variation in fitness– Inheritance of
variation
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Natural Selection is result of adaptation to changing environment
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Artificial selection is by controlled by humans and can be unadaptive
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Not all artificial selection is bad
The ‘green’ revolution
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Primate Mating Strategies
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• We are mammals• Takes a lot of resources to reproduce next
generation• Variety of strategies in primates– Monogamy/ Non-monogamy– Infanticide
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intersexual selection
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intrasexual selection
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5-6,000 languages spoken today
Many disappearing
Global language
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Properties of language
Multimedia potentialDiscretenessArbitrarinessProductivityDisplacement
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language has shaped us physically
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Language reflects our view of the world
Cattle Horses Swine
Cow Mare Sow Female
Bull Stallion Boar Male
Steer Gelding Barrow Male - Mature - Neutered
Calf Foal Piglet Newborn – Regardless of sex
Heifer calf Filly Gilt Female - Immature
Bull calf Colt shoat Male - Immature
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how we speak can reflect our position in society
accent - how
dialect - what
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Culture
LearnedSharedSymbolic
different but related to naturedifferent for different groups
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ethnocentrismor
cultural relativism?
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Ethnography
Originated with anthropology
originally used to study ‘simple’ societies
now a method to study any cultural setting
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emic – within the cultureetic – culturally neutral
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lots we can learn from bones
sex – hips, skullage – skull, teethdiet – teethstatus – grave goods, treatment of body
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Birth, Coming of Age, Death
look at your reading pack
draw on wider knowledge (Pinterest/ Youtube)
draw on your personal experience
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test
worth 60%
3 sections
– multiple choice (20 marks)– short definitions (40)– essay (40)