Unit 1 - Being Human: Unity and Diversity

Unit 1 - Being Human: Unity and Diversity

1. The Body

   • Evolution
     • Evolutionary Science
       • Evolution is the process by which new species are formed from pre-existing ones over very long periods of time.
       • Charles Darwin
         • On the origin of species
     • Primates
     • Homo Sapiens
   • Race
     • History of the concept of race
     • Scientific falsity of race
     • Contemporary
   • Changing the body
     • Body modifications
     • Theory; Techniques of the body
     • Theory; Habitus

2. Thinking and communicating

   • Symbolism
     • Types of symbol
     • The Ndembu
     • Theory; Structuralism
   • Cosmology
     • Myth; Bushmen and Tiwi
     • Explaining events; Azande Witchcraft
     • Explaining events; Tiwi Pukimani
   • Language
     • Origin and nature of language
     • Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
     • Egs; The Piraha, The Himba

3. Organising social relations

   • Political Anthropology
     • Political Classifications
     • Acephalous society; Bushmen Band
     • Big men; The Tiwi
     • Class system; Trobriand Chiefdoms
     • Structural Functionalism
     • Marxism
   • Kinship
     • Genealogy, terms and concepts
     • Matrilineal Systems; Toda / Trobrianders
     • Descent Theory
     • Fictive kinship; Bushmen
   • Economics
     • Economic Systems
     • Theory; The gift
     • Hunting ; Bushmen
     • Gathering; Bushmen
     • Kula
     • Moka; The Kawelka

4. Engaging with nature

   • Ecological Anthropology
     • Terms and concepts
     • Biocentrism vs Anthropocentrism
     • Cultural Materialism
   • Bushmen
     • Hunting and gathering
     • Belief in human animal equality
     • Belief in now
   • Yanomamo
     • Horticulture and settlement pattern
     • Belief in Noreshi
     • Garimperos