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Laura Pountney
Introducing Anthropology
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
Dedication
INTRODUCING ANTHROPOLOGY
WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?
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Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1
What Makes Us Human?
Contents
Key issues and debates
How Did Humans Evolve?
Explanations of human evolution
Creationism and evolution
Scientific explanations of human origins
After Darwin
Early humans
Australopithecus afarensis
: Lucy
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo floresiensis
Homo denisova
ACTIVITY
Climate change, human evolution and the Anthropocene
ACTIVITY
Where did modern humans originate from?
Similarities and differences between humans and nonhuman primates
ACTIVITY
All hominins and African apes lack external tails
All humans and African apes have opposable thumbs
ACTIVITY
Sexual dimorphism
Diet and internal organs
Competitiveness, hierarchy and aggression
Social relations
ACTIVITY
Tool-use
Bipedalism
Human pelvis shape and size are different from those of other primates
ACTIVITY
Hairless bodies and sweating
The brain
Females live beyond the menopause
Cultural Evolution
Cooking
ACTIVITY
Language
Symbols
Recording information: The origins of written language
Social life
Sharing resources, exchange
Rituals
Expressing identity
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
How Do Humans Vary? The Concept of Race and a Critique of the Concept
Biological differences between humans
ACTIVITY
Culturally constructed concepts of race
American Association of Physical Anthropologists’ (AAPA) Statement on Race and Racism (2019)
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
Key terms
PERSONAL INVESTIGATION
Suggested further sources
Books
Ethnographic films
Websites
CHAPTER 2
Research Methods
Contents
Key issues and debates
Ethnography
ACTIVITY
The history of anthropological research methods
A founder of ethnographic fieldwork
Factors influencing choice of research method
Practical issues
Ethical issues
Theoretical issues
ACTIVITY
Gangsters without Borders: An Ethnography of a Salvadoran Street Gang
(Ward 2012)
ACTIVITY
Participant observation
Getting in
Staying in
Getting out
An evaluation of participant observation (PO)
ACTIVITY
Interviews
Unstructured interviews
Life histories
ACTIVITY
Reflexivity in anthropology
An African ethnography of American anthropology (Mwenda Ntarangwi)
Interview with Brian Morris (2015)
Garry Marvin’s testimony (2015)
ACTIVITY
Digital Anthropology
Interview with Sarah Pink (2020)
Interview with Crystal Abidin (2020)
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
Key terms
PERSONAL INVESTIGATION
Guidelines for observation
Suggested further sources
Books and articles
Ethnographic film
Websites
CHAPTER 3
The Body
Contents
Key issues and debates
STOP & THINK
Body Modifications and Decorations
Body modifications
Foot-binding
Lip plates
Scarification
Body modification in Western societies
Difference between plastic and cosmetic surgeries
Cosmetic surgery in Brazil (Alexander Edmonds)
ACTIVITY
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Tattooing
Globalization: Tattoos and tattooing
Skin colour bias
Keeping up with the times (Gideon Lasco)
ACTIVITY
Body Types
Body image in Fiji
Training the body in sport
Ideal male body type, size: Symbolic power
Sexy bodies
Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry
(dir. Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção, Christine Dettmann, 2013)
Anthropological Theories of the Body
Biological model – naturalistic approach
Symbolic Classification and the Body: The Body and Society
Handedness
ACTIVITY
Body techniques
Habitus
The ‘social skin’
Cleanliness
Hair
Body-painting as ‘social skin’
Pierced ears, ear plugs, lip plates
The Guest
(dir. Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen, 2012)
This Is My Face
(dir. Angélica Cabezas Pino, 2018)
Globalization: The body
Female genital cutting in Ghana (Saida Hodžić)
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
Key terms
PERSONAL INVESTIGATION
Suggested further sources
Books and articles
Ethnographic films
Websites
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