Australopethicus Afaransis and HomoNeanderthalansis
Homosapien and Australopethicus Afaransis
7. SOCIAL BODY - HERTZ' theory?
Handedness - preference for using one hand over the other, e.g. India -> right hand; sacred, left hand; profane.
Techniques of the body - ways in which the body is trained within a culture.
Habitus - habits depend on history and human memory; exists beyond original reason, e.g. working class in Britain have different habitus to upper class.
Social skin - body adornments, e.g. Kayak in the Amazon; use body modifications to symbol stage of life. Body Mod includes hair, body paint, tattoos etc.
8. SOCIAL BODY - BOURDIEU's theory?
Techniques of the body - ways in which the body is trained within a culture.
Habitus - habits depend on history and human memory; exists beyond original reason, e.g. working class in Britain have different habitus to upper class.
Handedness - preference for using one hand over the other, e.g. India -> right hand; sacred, left hand; profane.
Social skin - body adornments, e.g. Kayak in the Amazon; use body modifications to symbol stage of life. Body Mod includes hair, body paint, tattoos etc.
9. What is natural selection?
God decides which animals die out.
Best adapted organisms survive to pass on their genes.
Only the animals who find a mate to reproduce can survive.
10. What is bipedalism?
Walking on four limbs.
The development of bicycles.
Walking on two legs.
The use of wheels in early humans to transport goods.
11. RACE - Environmental adaptation theory?
Trading - people 'mixing' so skin colour changes.
Skin colour is adapted to the environment.
Darker skin is an adaptation to intense sunlight.
12. What is sexual selection?
Finding a mate to reproduce with.
Only the animals that have the most sex survive.
Animals die when they do not reproduce.
13. What were early humans called?
Hominin
HomoSapiens
HomoNeanderthalansis
14. RACE - AAA view?
Social construct - not a biological reality, was made to give privilege to some and remove power from others.
Was created by slave drivers to justify their actions against people of other skin colours.
It is important in today's society so that we don't forget about the history of discrimination some people have gone through.
15. RACE - RUSTIN's view?
Race is still culturally + socially relevant.
Race is an 'empty category'.
Mixing means that nobody fits into one race.
Race is a social construct.
16. SEXUAL SELECTION - MILLER's argument?
Universal preference among women for tall + muscular men, men like all different kinds of women.
Human culture developed through sexual selection for creative traits.
Human bodies are attracted to people of high reproductive potential - attractiveness is due to sexual selection.
17. What do anthropologists believe now when it comes to hominins and homosapiens?
They have no relation to each other.
Homosapiens and hominin lived side by side.
Homosapiens descended from hominin in a single line.
Hominin descended from homosapiens however they died out due to natural selection.
18. What did anthropologists originally believe when it came to hominins + homosapiens?
They have no relation to each other.
Homosapiens descended from hominin in a single line.
Hominin descended from homosapiens however they died out due to natural selection.
Homosapiens and hominin lived side by side.
19. What is DUNBAR's theory about similarities between humans and apes?
Humans derive from apes in one long hereditary line.
Humans are most similar to gorillas.
Humans have an imagination - apes don't.
Humans and apes are intellectually on par with each other.
20. SOCIAL BODY - TURNER's theory?
Habitus - habits depend on history and human memory; exists beyond original reason, e.g. working class in Britain have different habitus to upper class.
Handedness - preference for using one hand over the other, e.g. India -> right hand; sacred, left hand; profane.
Social skin - body adornments, e.g. Kayak in the Amazon; use body modifications to symbol stage of life. Body Mod includes hair, body paint, tattoos etc.
Techniques of the body - ways in which the body is trained within a culture.
