Anthropology

Anthropology

Study of humans and how we live, what we’re like and how we’ve changed over time

Belmont Report

Document created to protect people who participate in research studies.

Three main principles of Belmont Report

Respect for persons, Beneficence, Justice

Beneficence

Do not harm

Which subsistence system is polygyny associated with?

Horticultural and Pastoral

Polygny

One man and many wives

What types of kinships and marriage is polygny associated with? 

Pastoral societyes, Partoralinal local 

What types of inheritance systems and child preferences are associated with polygyny?

Patrilineal inheritance, Preference for sons

Nia video Questions: 

Quote from onkas big monkas

Linguistic anthropology

variation over time, what people speak about, speech in social contexts, language and culture, code-switching

Non-human communication

Threats, alarm calls, scents, simple (compared to humans) 

Daughter Linguistic

New version-latin/italian

Pidgin Linguistic 

Simplified version- S. Afterican Gold mines

Creole (borrows vocab)

Blend of English and French (English!)

How do we learn language?

Womb, so on

Phonology

Study of the sounds of a language and how those sounds are organized and used to create meaning.

Morphology

Smallest units of meaning in a language, called morphemes, and how they combine to make words.

Syntax

How words are arranged to form sentences and how sentence structure creates meaning.

Cultural materialism

Material (physical and economic) conditions — like environment, technology, and resources.

Functionalism

Culture fulfills useful functions in society

What does a mother and father contribute to the descendants 

Eric

my perspective 

Etic

their perspective as an outsider

Culture

Way of a group and their beliefs, customs, language, and traditions.

Cultural Norms

Rules/expectations of how people need to bah in a society 

Cultural Values

Shared ideas about what is important, good, desirable in a society

Culture Worldview 

Way a group sees and interoperates the world

Example of a culture and their norms, values, and worldview

Subscience

Subscience Systems

Cultural Ecology 

ecology - culture - subsistence (production) (CIRCLE MAP) interaction between these