Ant302 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is a mummy? How do people become mummies? - "mummy" refers to any form of preserved human or animal remains, and can be a result of natural or purposeful mummification What is the purpose of mummification? - mummification can occur for political or religious purposes, though the primary purpose is preservation for any of these reasons What kind of environments are best for natural mummification to occur? Why? - dry and hot environments lack humidity, fluids evaporate and reduce bacte...

What is a Flapper? - 'New breed' of young Western women in 1920s who flaunted disdain for acceptable behavior; fashion influenced by Egyptian discoveries. What is plastination? - A technique used in anatomy to conserve bodies or body parts. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most microscopic properties of the original sample

Atypical burials - Representations of the bizarre, as they deviate from the normalized burial traditions of a region, time period or cemetery" - Mistakes during internment - Evolution into a fear of the dead -necrophobia - Insight into the living - Intentionality of these burials - Social persona/deviant social persona

In the reading Your Zombie and You, the authors explain that one of the more horrifying aspects of zombies is the killing of a relative because of the question of _______, since we can't know if the zombie is the same person as the one who died. - personal identity In the article Your Zombie and You, the authors describe hordes of zombies as a force of nature by comparing them to a: - all of these answers are correct The term "The Modern Prometheus" refers to the alternate name of the no...

World system and colonialism  Sources of political change that are result of conflict with different society  Major source of change in human societies has been conflict with culturally different society  Colonialism and capitalism -> major sources of change Franchise Colonialism – the political and social domination of culturally unrelated group in different territory; geographically distant territories. First Phase: driven by commercial capital desires to set a outpost for market...