Ant100 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Some social scientists believe that Increased emphasis placed on appearance increases body anxiety, but it may also diminish other attributes formerly essential to success, such as family, birth, and character. One reason attractiveness has such social and emotional significance is the emergence of "elective sexuality" and sexual autonomy as desire and pleasure are partially de-linked from reproduction, familial control, and traditional moralities. - T Female genital mutilation (FGM) ...

Evolutionary Anthropology - Application of modern evolutionary theory to studies of morphology, ecology, and behavior of human and non-human primates 5 sub-disciplines Evolution in not linear, goal oriented, progressive Primatology - Scientific study of non-human primates Primate anatomy, field studies of wild animals, primate psychology, etc Primatologists seek to study the evolution of primates Paleoanthropology - Multidisciplinary study of: Biological evolution of humans and non-huma...

Primate - lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and Great Apes, humans have: nails, short snout, large brain. What are the 2 suborders of primates? - Strepsirhini and Haplorhini Strepsirhini traits - primate suborder wet nosed moist rhinarium, dental tooth comb, infused mandibular and frontal symphyses, post orbital bar, unfused synapses (forehead), tapetum lucidum (reflective eyes), retain Eocene features (primitive) Strepsir derived trait - Strepsirrhines...

Primate - lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and Great Apes, humans have: nails, short snout, large brain. What are the 2 suborders of primates? - Strepsirhini and Haplorhini Strepsirhini traits - primate suborder wet nosed moist rhinarium, dental tooth comb, infused mandibular and frontal symphyses, post orbital bar, unfused synapses (forehead), tapetum lucidum (reflective eyes), retain Eocene features (primitive) Strepsir derived trait - Strepsirrhines...

The common practice of "two-spirited" gender roles with most Native American societies is an example of gender binary. - False Only very closed-minded people are ethnocentric. - False Chimpanzees and bonobos kiss. Often, they kiss with open mouths and tongues. - True Fraternal polyandry allows women to marry two brothers, but not three or more. - False Medical Anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better ...

anthropology - geographical and historical, all people, all time periods, traces the development of humans until the present holistic approach - study all varieties of people, but many aspects of human experience subfields of anthropology (4) - (1)social/cultural (2)biological (3)archaeology (4)linguistic biological approach - biological or physical characteristics of humans and the emergence of humans and their later evolution (human paleontology and human variation) homo sapiens - al...

_ consists of traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that form and guide the beliefs and behavior of a group of people. - Culture Cultural Anthropology - Study of human society and culture Archaeology - Study of human behavior through material remains Biological Anthropology - Study of human biological variation through time and as it exists today

Holism refers to - the study of the whole human condition Cultures are described as - traditions and customs that are transmitted through learning and that form and guide the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them. Anthropolgy is - the study of humans around the world and through time. General anthropology refers to - anthropology as a whole, or the "four fields." The four fields of anthropology include - sociocultural, archaeology, biological, and linguistic.

The ongoing spread of goods, people, information, and capital around the world is referred to as _________________ - globalization Jane Goodall has studied chimpanzees in Tanzania since 1960. Her work is a study in __________. - primatology What are the two primary research topics within biological (physical) anthropology? - human origins and human variation __________ seek not only to reconstruct the daily life and customs of past or extinct peoples but also to trace cultural changes ...

Primate lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and Great Apes ( humans) have: nails, short snout, large brain. What are the 2 suborders of primates? Strepsirhini and Haplorhini Strepsirhini traits - primate suborder -wet nosed -dental tooth comb - unfused synapses (forehead) -tapetum lucidum (reflective eyes) - retain Eocene features (primitive)