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  • Horace Miner
  • magical beliefs and practices of the Nacirema present such unusual aspects that it seems desirable to describe them as an example of the extremes to which human behavior can go
  • North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antille
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  • highly developed market economy
  • devoted to economic pursuits
  • activity is the human body
  • human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease
  • one or more shrines devoted to this purpose
  • more powerful individuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the number of such ritual centers it possesses
  • ituals
  • re private
  • box or chest which is built into the wall
  • harms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live
  • ecured from a variety of specialized practitioners
  • medicine men
  • ubstantial gifts
  • write them down in an ancient and secret language
  • charm-box
  • mall fon
  • bows his head before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablutio
  • holy-mouth-men.
  • pathological horror of and fascination with the mout
  • supernatural influence on all social relationships
  • oral and moral
  • For example, there is a ritual ablution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their moral fiber.
  • mouth-rite
  • small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures.[7]
  • holy-mouth-man once or twice a year
  • f sadism is involved
  • This part of the rite includes scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument.
  • As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour
  • latipso
  • "that is where you go to die
  • Psychological shock results from the fact that body secrecy is suddenly lost upon entry into the latipso
  • aversion to the natural body and its functions.
  • fat people thin
  • thin people fat.
  • used to make women's breasts larger
  • inhuman hypermammary development are so idolized that they make a handsome living by simply going from village to village and permitting the natives to stare at them for a fee
  • Natural reproductive functions are similarly distorted. Intercourse is taboo as a topic and scheduled as an act. Efforts are made to avoid pregnancy by the use of magical materials or by limiting intercourse to certain phases of the moon.
  • magic-ridden people
Daryl Bambic

A Viking Mystery | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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viking civilization archaeology

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  • Oxford
  • anuary 2008
  • 4,000-year-old religious complex—an earthwork enclosure, or henge, built by late Neolithic tribesmen, probably for a sun-worshiping cult.
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  • 400 feet in diameter
  • Britain’s prehistoric henges
  • garbage dump
  • uman bones
  • but now a mass grave as well.”
  • all of them victims of violence
  • 960 to 1020—the period in which the Anglo-Saxon monarchy peaked in power
  • riginally from Germany, Anglo-Saxons had invaded England almost six centuries earlier, after the Roman Empire had fallen into disarray.
  • “execution cemeteries”
  • n average, more fish and shellfish than did Anglo-Saxons.
Daryl Bambic

Hominid Skull Spurs Radical Rewrite of Human Evolution - D-brief | DiscoverMagazine.com - 0 views

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skull fossil species anthro controversy

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  • Daryl Bambic on 20 Oct 13
     
    Once again, another discovery challenges the existing scientific theory about the evolution of homo sapiens.
Daryl Bambic

Mike Morwood: Archaeologist whose 'hobbit' discovery sparked fresh debate on human evol... - 0 views

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hobbit evolution

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  • far from being the linear narrative of successive waves of colonisation out of Africa, as once thought, the process was, in fact, one with numerous twists and turns involving many different species.
  • among the most outstanding discoveries in paleoanthropology in over half a century.
  • because the cave also unearthed sophisticated stone tools similar to others found around the world in Homo erectus sites
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  • Flores tools were tiny, the right size for people of only 3ft tall with a brain the size of a chimp or grapefruit
  • Remarkably, the skull was found in a layer of sediments dating back only 18,000 years, long after the Neanderthals had vanished from the face of the Earth, having lost the evolutionary battle to Homo sapiens, the sole human species on Earth by then. This had huge ramifications for the varying theories of human evolution.
  • it could have been a descendant of Homo erectus that arrived early on Flores, perhaps using boats, and which, becoming stranded, evolved its petite size as an adaptation to the limited food supply available.
  • They also proposed the unimaginable, that Homo floresiensis lived contemporaneously on Flores with Homo sapiens.
  • Detractors
  • isease of some sort that produced the specimen’s unusual features.
Daryl Bambic

The Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design Controversy - 0 views

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intelligent design anthro creationism evolution

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    Law students build both sides of the argument.
Daryl Bambic

The CRAPpy Song (aka, the C.R.A.P. Test Song) - YouTube - 0 views

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digital literacy crap_test crap

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Daryl Bambic

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

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introduction

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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
Daryl Bambic

Chimps Trade Meat for Sex -- And It Works - 3 views

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evolution sex chimps meat anthropology

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  • hare meat with females double their chances of having sex with those females
  • More surprising was that males shared meat with females that didn't have sexual swellings, perhaps in hopes of future success, the researchers say.
  • he fact that the chimp males also shared meat with females not in heat could also add new fire to the debate about chimpanzees' cognitive abilities
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    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 03 Sep 13
       
      What do you think the male chimp's behaviour might indicate?
    • Tyler David
      Tyler David on 03 Sep 13
       
      That he knows, since he is doing something for the female now, he is hoping that in the future she will pay it back in the form of sex.
    • Ethan Crystal
      Ethan Crystal on 03 Sep 13
       
      To me, it indicates some common ways of thinking between us humans and the chimps
    • joco26
      joco26 on 03 Sep 13
       
      This behaviour may indicate that the chimps have some sort of intellect. They are able to process the outcome of events, which in this case is a trade of meat for sex. 
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 03 Sep 13
       
      The male chimps behavior may indicate further signs of social structure in the primate community and mating rituals are far more sophisticated than what we thought. 
    • jonah-e
      jonah-e on 03 Sep 13
       
      that he really wants to reproduce and he is willing to trade it for his food. So it shows some sort of planning ahead and they are becoming more intellectual 
    • Brandon Sigal
      Brandon Sigal on 03 Sep 13
       
      The fact that he is giving her meat even though she is not ready to have sex shows that he is planning for the future. The monkey is showing that he has the ability to give something in hopes to get something in return soon.
    • Marc-Anthony Palacios-Castellana
      Marc-Anthony Palacios-Castellana on 03 Sep 13
       
      It shows how the chimps are evolving and staring to make connections between giving the females meat and recieving sex
    • Chris Dimopoulos
      Chris Dimopoulos on 03 Sep 13
       
      The male chimp is willing to do what it takes to breed
Catherine Preston

Female Chimpanzees and Tool Use: Animal Planet - 0 views

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female tool animal planet evolution chimps

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      Catherine Preston on 03 Sep 13
       
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