This is an ambitious project, and no reviewer can comment on all of it with equal authority. My own background as an historian of European expansion and Asian response over the last two hundred years requires me to take most of the account of prehistory on trust - which is a drawback since Diamond asserts that most of the really important influences on modern history had already occurred before the birth of Christ. To a non-specialist, the account of human prehistory presented here seems plausible and well-founded - the argument is that, as homo sapiens evolved in Africa and migrated to colonise first Asia, then Europe, then Australia, and finally the Americas, so a technical progression from hunting to settled agriculture, and a societal progression…
Instructor: Dr. Joyce Parga; Email: j.parga@utoronto.ca Office hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4 pm (or by appointment); Office: MW 382 Lecture meeting times and location: Tuesdays 1-3 pm in SW 319 Tutorials (labs): 5 Tuesdays across the semester during your 1-hr tutorial section in MW 329 Tutorial TA: Dejana Nikitovic; Email: dejana.nikitovic@mail.utoronto.ca; Office: MW 343 (Note: Tutorials begin in Week 3 on Tuesday May 21. See Tutorial Schedule at end of syllabus.) Course Description: This course will provide a basic introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology and Archaeology, aimed at students with no background in either field. Prerequisites: None Exclusions: ANT100Y, ANT101H Required Readings: All chapters listed below in the lecture schedule refer to the following course textbook, which is available for purchase from the UTSC bookstore: Lewis, B., Jurmain, R., and Kilgore, L., 2012. Understanding Humans: Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 11th edition. Belmont CA: Wadsworth. You can also purchase the text from the publisher as an e-book. Go to: http://www.nelsonbrain.com/shop/isbn/9781111831776 (On Blackboard, there is a PowerPoint file provided by the publisher about buying the e-book – look under “Course Materials”.) Lecture schedule: Following is a planned list of topics to be covered in lecture; note that topics are subject to change and all topics listed may not be covered, but you are responsible for doing all of the readings. Date 7 May 14 May 21 May Lecture Topic Course Intro /What is Anthropology/Evolution Genetics/Processes of Evolution Non-Human Primates/Primate Behaviour…
3. The center of the postclassical West was in France, the Low Countries, and southern and western Germany…
The two main advocates of this theory are St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century and William Paley in the 19th century; we will examine both in turn. We will also examine the Aesthic view and Richard Swinburne argument.…
[ 2 ]. C,Scarre, “The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies” ,(London: Thames and Hudson, 2005) p.223…
Bonamici, Marisa, Riccardo Francovich, Renata G. Cremonesi, Andreina Ricci, and Leonardo Rombai. The Land of the Etruscans. Milan: Scala, 1985.…
So is the past 500 years of human history, when the feudal chains began to uncoil and mass migrations to cities began, truly the parameters with which to understand the human story? Various academics have argued that this method of understanding the human story is not only reductionist, but wholly incomplete and even destructive.…
The relationship between history and literary work is often questioned. There are four main models that have been devised to explain this. The first regards a piece literary work as universal and belonging to no time period. The model states that historical context has no significance in literary texts, and that both should remain autonomous from each other. Critics are concerned with literary texts being artefacts in themselves that surpass the possibilities of a particular time, thus the idea of specific historical context is dismissed. R.S. Crane supports this view and in an essay said history is part of “the general history of culture” whereas literature should be “imaginative works considered with respect to those qualities which can truly be said to be timeless… quite apart from any knowledge of their origin or historical affiliation” (Crane, Ronald. 1967. ‘History versus Criticism in the study of literature’, in The idea of the Humanities and Other Essays Critical and Historical, Vol.2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press). In short, this model centres around the basis that a literary work should be judged on its, as Crane said, ‘timeless qualities’ for example the quality of its linguistic features and other aspects that give a work literary merits.…
Ramírez, Susan E., Peter N. Stearns, Samuel S. Wineburg, and Steven A. Goldberg. Holt World History: Human Legacy. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. Print.…
The title for the English version of Umberto Eco's Diario Minimo is undoubtely a brilliant pick, especially because the word so much describe the kind of literature one would find in the book. Originally collected from Eco's monthly column in an Italian magazine Il Verri, these pieces of writings contain the same core of humorous and somewhat cynical swing of literary theory, anthropology, and cultural biases which I find very amusing, entertaining, and yet a little bit disturbing to read since they question many things that have ever been taken for granted.…
Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett. The origins of Culture: First Volume. New York, New York, Harper and Row, 1958. Print.…
2006 Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Neanderthal as Image and Distortion in Early 20th- Century French Science and Press Vol. 36. SAGE Publications, California.…
References: Craig,A.M.,Graham, W.A., Kagan,D., Ozment, S., & Turner, F.M. (2009). The Heritage of World Civilization. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall…
France is the 19th most populous country in the world. The total French population is estimated to be 63,718,187 with around 60, 876,135 living in metropolitan France. The largest cities in France are Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, Nice, and Nantes The French society has a wide diversity of people and ethnicities. Ethnic groups include Celtic, Latin, Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, in addition to the Basque minorities in the south. However, there is a large percentage of immigrants in France (Legal & Illegal). In 2004 a total of 140,033 people immigrated to France, 90,250 were from Africa, and 13,710 were from Europe, the following year immigration fell to 135,890. According to to the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, France has an estimate of 4.9 million foreign born immigrants, 2 million of which have acquired French citizenship.…
Medovoi, L. (1998). “Theorizing historicity, or the many meanings of Blacula”, Screen, 39/1, pp. 1-21…