Anthro 2a exam - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

the social construction of identity: - correct answersseeing identities as relational and contextual rather than an innate attribute or essence of the individual or group To see identity like an anthropologist We need to critically examine— -essentialist ideas And also -mythologies surrounding individual choice Anthropologists see identities as social and relational, contextual, its not simply how you define yourself but how others define you Relationships that produce identity un...

Final Exam Review Guide – Extended Text form (Articles 10, 11, 12, 13, 15) Article 10: Race, Human Variation, and the Forces of Evolution In Marvin Harris’s article “Race, Human Variation, and the Forces of Evolution,” he proposes multiple claims and then supports or argues them by giving evidences and explanation. His main message of his article is to explain why all individuals are different and why. One of the claims he make in his article is that the IQ tests do not actually sho...