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    Team Anthro Anthropology Notes Paper I Arava‚ Uday Table of Contents CSE Anthropology Syllabus 5 Paper - I 5 Notes 9 1 Meaning‚Scope and Development of Anthropology 9 2 Relationship with other disciplines 10 2.1 Anthropology(A) and social science 10 2.2 Anthropology and behavioral science 10 3 Main Branches of Anthropology: 11 3.1 Social cultural anthropology 11 3.2 Biological Anthropology 12 3.3 Archaeological anthropology - 13 3.4 Lingusitic Anthropology 14 4 Biological Factors in Human

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    Marshall Sahlins’ has a quote that we stand on the shoulders of giants to shit on their heads reflects the idea of paradigm shift. The shoulders personify the collective knowledge of those researchers before us‚ as students it is where we gain our information. It is not through our own work that we initially study our respective fields; we study the accumulation of work that those giants have codified. The shit represents new ideas‚ criticism‚ and reworking of the previously held beliefs. The

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    Cultural Autobiography: Students will complete a cultural autobiography by naming the countries (if any) other than the United States that they identify as a place of origin for themselves and their family. They will identify their ethnic/cultural group membership and reflect on advice that has been handed down through their family by their ancestors (that is‚ “family motto”). Students will make a list of at least five values that are important to their cultural/racial identity and rank/order them

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    ANTH 1002: Introducing Anthropology   Week 11 Lecture Plan   1.  What is naturalisation? ·        Social stratification or inequality is invariably maintained by a process which anthropologists (and others) term naturalisation.  By naturalisation we mean that hierarchy comes to be seen as ‘natural’ and therefore as being beyond question. ·        In other words‚ naturalisation results in inequality being seen as emanating from something outside society or social/political processes

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    to examine and analyze bones all the time. That’s what forensic anthropologists do. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. Forensic anthropology is examination of human skeletal and decomposing remains in a legal setting to establish the identity of unknown individuals to help determine the cause of death. According to paragraph 1 in the article "What is forensic anthropology?" by R.U. Steinberg‚ forensic anthropologists usually work in crime scenes‚ political atrocities‚ and suspicious death. They collect

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    Anthropology 2A Concepts & Terms Final Exam Macro & Local Levels of Social Analysis Imperialism - Scientific Racism - Unilinear Social Evolutionism - Social Darwinism Colonialism Imperialism & the Postcolonial World 3 Waves of European Colonial Expansion (& Japan) “Development” Intervention Philosophies Profit and the Colonies Power & Representations Slave Trade Blackbirding Conscription Capitalist World System - Core‚ Semiperiphery‚ Periphery Colonial Strategies

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    Anthropology – Study of Human Diversity - the four subfields of anthropology Cultural anthropologists: ethnography… based on field work Archaeologists: material remains Biological: diversity thru time and space Language: now language to learn past Earnest Hooton: Physical anthropologist Black racist… said closer to primates than whites. caucazoid‚ mongloid‚ negroid Culture Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human; transmitted through learning. |

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    This paper seeks to examine the cultural aspects of health and why medical anthropologists emphasize the need for local knowledge of culture to critically tackle human health. Medical anthropology is one of the major subfields of anthropology. It aims to understand the factors that influences health including biological and socio-cultural factors. The job of medical anthropologist is to determine the cultural aspects of diagnosis and disease treatment. In essence‚ there are three major arguments

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    What is Sociology and Anthropology? Sociology is the study of human society; its origins‚ development‚ organizations‚ and institutions. Anthropology‚ on the other hand‚ is the study of humans; the past and the present. It focuses on human behavior and culture. Altogether‚ Sociology and Anthropology focuses on studying the social patterns and practices across cultures that developed as years go by and how people organize‚ govern‚ and create their civilization. It covers various topics such as health

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    Michaela Hurtienne Anthropology 101 Forensic Anthropology Forensic Anthropology has been a vital component in the investigation of genocides and homicides. Forensic archeologists and anthropologists excavate human remains and identify skeletal remnants‚ to discover information on how each individual died. Through this‚ they are able to figure out what had occurred in the death and why it happened. In one case in particular‚ known as the John McRae case‚ we can observe how the forensic recovery

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