Social conditions such as violence and racialized trauma and features of the built environment such as access to healthy foods are mainstay topics within urban health research. How might existing conceptual models linking these exposures to health outcomes be revised to more fully capture these phenomena and their links to health? What implications does this have […]
This exercise demonstrates the effects of natural selection on a population. To begin, working in groups, count out 70 red beans and 30 pink beans for a total of 100 beans. The red bean represents the allele for normal hemoglobin, which carries oxygen on the surface of the red blood cells. The pink bean represents […]
ANTHROPOLOGY One of my first anthropology professors, John Hamer, used to tell his students that you cannot make a person into an anthropologist; people are drawn to this field because on some level they already are anthropologists. I have thought about this idea over the years, and although I still am not sure exactly what […]
Ferdinand de Saussure and theory of signs; What is the point of his theory? What is the most general question, or problem that each of these theories tries to address? Are they trying to answer a question or account for a problem that has been overlooked, or inadequately explained? What do they want us to […]
The textbook author calls attention to arguments by leaders of underdeveloped countries, scholars, and activists, that “neoliberal policies are the centerpiece of an ever-evolving global economic system that promotes uneven development and ensures that wealthy countries remain wealthy and poor countries remain poor.” In a recent study, economic growth and globalization are shown to be […]
This week, we’ve learned about anthropological and historical perspectives on the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, as well as changing frameworks for understanding the complexities of sex itself. As described in the lecture, anthropologists talk about gender as a performance, rather than simply identity. We do gender according to norms, roles, and ideologies that […]
Define Social Darwinism and explain why it is not appropriate to use Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection as a justification for eugenics movements and imperialism (e.g. Nazi Germany). Why is it appropriate to explain human variation in skin color with Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, and how is it different from […]
Question 1: You are a forensic anthropologist working at a nearby university, and you are brought a shoe box full of broken, dry, and comingled bones. The woman who brings you this box tells you that she found it while cleaning out the crawl space in the new home she just purchased. Upon examining the […]
What term has been developed by donna caraway and other scholars by which to consider the Anthropocene as an inherent legacy of human agrarian practices and civilizations and in particular the role of colonialism in facilitating the exploitation of both labor and resources on a global scale?
What is the theoretical basis to understand how species are related to each other? How has the modern approach changed from the way they did it in the past? Why do we not just consider two things that look alike to be related? What are some of the concepts about human nature and the relationship […]
