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