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Anthropology 315Third World Cultures
• Dr. Siemens• Office-Sierra Hall 240B• Office Telephone (818) 677-4632• Office Hours
– Wednesday & Friday 1-1:30– Thursday 11:45AM-1:15PM – and by appointment
• Email [email protected]
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3x5 Card
• Name• Reason for Class• Previous Anthropology• Email Address• Is there a particular Third World
Culture of interest to you?• Anything else you want Dr. Siemens
to know about you and your interests.
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THE SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
What anthropologists have you heard of?
What did they study?
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Harrison Ford as fictional Indiana Jones
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Mary Leakey
Discovered Oldest Footprints
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Louis Leakey found fossil
humans
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Jane Goodall was first to study chimpanzees in the wild.
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Jane Goodall still works for Chimpanzee conservation.
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Dian Fossey was first to study gorillas in the wild.
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Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey
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Margaret Mead with Samoan Girls
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Deborah Tannen
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David Maybury-Lewis(right) Host of PBS series Millenium”Also founder of the human rights group “Cultural Survival”
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Anthropologists You may have Heard of
• Indiana Jones*
• Mary Leakey• Louis Leakey• Jane Goodall• Dian Fossey• Margaret Mead• Deborah Tannen
• David Maybury-Lewis
• Explore Ruins (fictional)• Fossil Hunter• Fossil Hunter• Chimpanzees• Gorillas• Samoan Girls• American Women and Men
Talking• Xavante Rights
*Fictitious anthropologist
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Anthropologists in the News
Anthropologists contribute to American society as well as to the
international community of scholars
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Helen Fisher Studies Brains in Love
• Neurotransmitters – Serotonin (low)– Norepinephrine (maybe)– Testosterone (lust)– Dopamine (novelty)– Vasopressin (Male attachment– Oxytocin (Female attachment)
• Considers three types of love– Romantic
– Lust
– Attachment
• Antidepresents may inhibit love– LA Times, July 30, 2007
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Jeanne Arnold Studies Middle Class Los Angeles Residents
• Middle Class spend a lot on yards and don’t use them
• Two wage earners don’t have leisure time
• LA Times August 19, 2007• Arnold is also an
expert on Chumash.
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Frederick Kyalo Manthi discovered the most recent
habiline 1.5 mya• Habilines
must not be ancestral to our species since ancestral erectines appear 1.8 mya
• LA Times 8-9-07
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Kuhn & Stiner say Neandertals lacked sexual division of labor
• That would establish sexual division of labor as distinctive of our recent evolutionary grouping
• Philadelphia Inquirer April 2, 2007
• Neander-tals were coed hunters
Steven L. Kuhn Mary C. Steiner
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Sam Dunn used anthropological
training in heavy metal
documentary• Takes holistic view: religion, gender,
social, global and historical perspectives.
• Main obstacle was convincing artists he was sympathetic. – Metal artists gave thoughtful
responses.– Some appeared hostile on camera but
friendly off camera.
• Anthropological approach was not first choice.
Chicago Tribune 4-14-06
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Anthropologists in the News• Helen Fisher• Jeanne Arnold• Frederick
Kyalo Manthi• Sam Dunn
• Brain Biochemistry of Love• Los Angeles Middle Class Homes• Fossil human-like species of a couple
million years ago• Heavy metal music
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Anthropologists for Our Readings
Trobriands(Weiner)
Mbuti(Turnbull)
Turnbull-Mbuti, Weiner-Trobriands, Flint & de Waal -DarfurEvans-Pritchard and Siemens-Azande
DarfurFlint&deWaal
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Colin Turnbull
Mbuti (Sua)
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Mitsuo IchikawaMbuti (Sua)
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Robert Bailey-Mbuti (Efe)
Justin Kendrick- Mbuti
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Bronislaw Malinowski
Trobriand Fieldwork and Functionalism
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Annette Weiner Trobriands
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Darfur, Sudan
• Julie Flint and Alex de Waal used research on Dor village by anthropologist Adam Abdul-Jalil Musa
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Edward Evans-
Pritchard Azande
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Siemens Observes Azande Magic
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Anthropologists for Our Readings
• Colin Turnbull• Mitsuo Ichikawa• Robert Bailey• Justin Kendrick• Annette Weiner• Bronislaw Malinowski• Adam Abdul-Jalil Musa• Julie Flint and Alex de Waal• Edward Evans-Pritchard• Stephen Siemens
• Mbuti Pygmies• Mbuti Pygmies• Mbuti Pygmies• Mbuti Pygmies• Trobriand Islanders• Trobriand Islanders• Darfur• Darfur• Azande• Azande
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Why are all of these called anthropologists?
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Anthropology Defined• Anthropology is the study of human beings
in a holistic manner.– Holism means appreciating totalities as more
than mere combinations of parts.– There are two ways anthropology is holistic.
• 1) Comprehensiveness. Because anthropology is holistic its study includes all humans of all places and all times.
• 2) Interrelatedness. Because anthropology is holistic any human group should be studied in its entirety, finding connections among economics, politics, religion, language, etc.
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Nature and Nurture
• A hundred years ago anthropology was the same as “racial” studies.– Biological determinism was the prevailing
view.– Eugenics was popular.
• Eugenics seeks to “improve” a population by identifying those with “good” genes and promoting their reproduction. Those with “bad” genes are prevented from reproducing.
– Nazi extermination of Jews was eugenics.
• Eugenics is inhumane and mistaken about genetics.
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Cultural Determinism
• Franz Boas argued that the important sources of human variation were learned rather than inherited.– Boas changed the prevailing view to cultural
determinism.
• Boas decreased the importance of biology to anthropology and increased the importance of learned culture.
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Anthropological SubfieldsFirst four subfields are results of
differences in methods.
• Physical (or Biological) Anthropology
• Archeology
• Linguistic Anthropology
• Cultural Anthropology
• Applied Anthropology intersects the first four.– Has practical as well as intellectual goals.
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Physical Anthropology
• Physical Anthropology uses biological methods.
Physical anthropology studies human origin, related species & variation.
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Archeology• Archeology uses excavation
methods and sampling.– Archeology studies artifacts.
• Artifacts are objects made by humans.
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Linguistic Anthropology
• Linguistic Anthropology uses linguistic methods.
• Linguistic anthropology studies language in use.
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Cultural Anthropology• Cultural
Anthropology uses participant observation.– Cultural
anthropology studies cultures of living people.
• This class is about cultural anthropology.
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Applied Anthropology• Intersects cultural, physical, linguistic and archeological
anthropology.• Works with organizations to solve problems using
anthropology: business, government, non-governmental organizations.
– Creates commonality among practitioners
• Marietta L. Baba (right) as worked with major corporations such as Motorola.
• Current interest is in globally distributed work groups.
• Network analysis reveals rifts that hinder productivity.
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