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Daryl Bambic

Cultural Anthropology/Introduction - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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  • nthropology is holistic[[1]], comparative, field based, and evolutionary.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Sep 13
       
      As a social science, anthropology is the ultimate interdisciplinary 'science'.  It is holistic and comparative.  
  • five sub-disciplines
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  • Archeology: The study and interpretation of ancient humans, their history and culture, through examination of the artifacts and remains they left behind
  • Cultural Anthropology:(also: sociocultural anthropology, social anthropology, or ethnology) studies the different cultures of humans and how those cultures are shaped or shape the world around them
  • Biological Anthropology
  • using genetics, evolution, human ancestry, primates, and the ability to adapt.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Sep 13
       
      Biological anthropology is the discipline that uses Darwin's theory of evolution to study man, primates and all of life.
  • Linguistic Anthropology: examines human languages
  • pplied anthropology is simply the practice of applying anthropological theory and or methods from any of the fields of Anthropology to solve human problems
  • Culture is:
  • Learned
  • Patterned
  • •Shared
  • •Adaptive
  • Symbolic
  • At its most basic level, the difference between Culture and culture is in the way they are defined. C
  • lture with a capital C refers to the ability of the human species to absorb and imitate patterned and symbolic ideas that ultimately further their survival
  • Familial culture
  • Every family is different, and every family has its own culture
  • icro or Subculture
  • distinct groups within a larger group that share some sort of common trait, activity or language that ties them together and or differentiates them from the larger group
  • clique
  • Mexican-Americans
  • micro-culture would be the Japanese hip hop
  • Cultural universals
  • Claude Levi-Strauss
  • gender roles, the incest taboo, religious and healing ritual, mythology, marriage, language, art, dance, music, cooking, games, jokes, sports, birth and death
  • tual ceremonies
  • f cultural relativism deny the existence or reduce the importance of cultural universals
  • Language and cognition
  • Society
  • Myth, Ritual, and aesthetics
  • Technology
  • This problem of right and wrong in terms of crossing cultural lines is a big one.
  • intrinsic cultural distinctions that are meaningful to the members of a given society, often considered to be an 'insider’s' perspective.
  • reate bias o
  • Enculturation
  • This process is the way in which we obtain and transmit culture.
  • In the !Kung Bushman tribe they look down upon people who think highly of themselves and who are arrogant. To avoid these characteristics, each child was raised to put down and mock others when they do things such as hunting and other activities.
  • Cultural Transmission
  • Symbols and Culture
  • Symbols are the basis of culture. A symbol is an object, word, or action that stands for something else with no natural relationship that is culturally defined
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Cultural Relativism
  • Ethnography
  • Deconstructing Race and Racism
  • Race was created long ago as a tool to separate humans
  • Deconstructing the social concept of race has been a major interest of Cultural Anthropology at least since Franz Boas's work on race and immigration in the early 1900's.
  • Race is not biological but it's supposed to be a way to classify biological differences by grouping people according to different characteristics that they have
  • There is no biological part of race. It is strictly a concept created by humans to try to better understand differences between us
  • Technology
Catherine Preston

An introduction to the John Scopes (Monkey) Trial - 0 views

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  • Dayton, Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925.
  • The Scopes Trial had its origins in a conspiracy at Fred Robinson's drugstore in Dayton
  • American Civil Liberties Union announcement that it was willing to offer its services to anyone challenging the new Tennessee anti-evolution statute.
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  • The conspirators summoned John Scopes, a twenty-four-year old general science teacher and part-time football coach, to the drugstore
  • Dayton. Darrow was not the first choice of the ACLU, who was concerned that Darrow's zealous agnosticism might turn the trial into a broadside attack on religion
  • Nearly a thousand people, 300 of whom were standing, jammed the Rhea County Courthouse on July 10, 1925
  • Judge John T. Raulston, the presiding judge in the Scopes Trial
  •   William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic candidate for President and a populist, led a Fundamentalist crusade to banish Darwin's theory of evolution from American classrooms
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 16 Oct 13
       
      YELLOW= PEOPLE GREEN= ACTIONS
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      Catherine Preston on 16 Oct 13
       
      PINK= FLAWS IN THE TRIAL
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      Catherine Preston on 16 Oct 13
       
      BLUE= MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE TRIAL
  • The proceedings opened, over Darrow's objections, to a prayer
  • Judge Raulston and his entire family listened attentively from their front pew seats.
  • Judge Raulston
  • A jury of twelve men, including ten (mostly middle-aged) farmers and eleven regular church-goers, was quickly selected
  • including ten (mostly middle-aged) farmers and eleven regular church-goers, was quickly selected
  • A jury of twelve men
  • moved to quash the indictment on both state and federal constitutional grounds. This move was at the heart of the defense strategy.  The defense's goal was not to win acquittal for John Scopes, but rather to obtain a declaration by a higher court--preferably the U.S. Supreme Court--that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution were unconstitutional
  • Judge Raulston denied the defense motion.
  • As expected
  • titanic struggle between good and evil or truth and ignorance
  • if evolution wins, Christianity goes.
  • The prosecution opened its case by asking the court to take judicial notice of the Book of Genesis,
  • asked seven students in Scope's class a series of questions about his teachings
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