the time has come my little friends to talk of other things

A Woman's Curse?
Meredith F. Small



1 The Dagon society is very much shaped by the passing of menstrual periods and is a symbolic language that is very similar to the changing of the seasons or the tides or the moon. The identity's of the men will be changed and can even be forced to marry if the knows who was the first to lay with the woman after she had stopped visiting the huts. It also shows the controlling nature of these men that they need to keep tabs on anything that they can. A Woman's identity is very strongly established by the step in the menstrual cycle that they are at and the huts play a large part in showing when the women are potentially ready to conceive. it is also useful in determining who the father is if that is being disputed.
2 They reflect both by having a place that is occupied by certain people at certain times which are set by a biological time. And in their society they mark this important transition by having a symbolic task be preformed to show the group when they can soon mate.
3 Most of the menstrual taboo in this country comes mostly from any talking about the process and what is happening while it is taking place. Anything that has to do with bodily function has at least to be thought about before bringing it up in conversation without offending someone.
4 The thing that spoke to me through out this whole article was the level of increased health due to the lack of menstrual cycles. If the proposed method of birth control in the article is viable it would seem to me a direction worth pursuing and would hopefully give health benefits similar to the women in natural fertility society's.

more busy work so that there can be points in college

Article 8 Life without Fathers or Husbands
By Clifford Geertz






1 The Na have figured out a very unique way to eliminate jealousy almost the people that are in the area by allowing the freedom to make love to anyone and it is not a giant ordeal and either man or woman could be the one asking the other out. While there are downfalls to this type of open sexual forum such as disease which is very prevalent in their society it does seem to be a very strong regulated system.
2 Na culture has rules that make it possible to exclude others that is true. But it is also true that the freedom of asking out members of both sexes are permitted to seek out members of the opposite sex. So even though it's different and not the same way that everyone has decided to live there still is order and balence within their culture.
3 The Na have a very different form for being intimate with each other. but there is no way of saying that one is better than the other. There is just as much abnormality in any other culture in the world. And I would characterize them as unique but they do not vary so much to say that they are not people.
4 Now it's not that I'm surprised to find that this altered style of living has eventually has been fought against. But the real thing to think about is that these people who so many deem to be incestuous or primitive have found away to take away from jealousy and increase genetic diversity within that culture witch as I find more and more out would seem to be a direction that we would want to pursue but we seem to be too stuck in our ways. Which doesn't surprise me but i wish we could change.

dr, seuss is in my brain and escapes through my art

some pictures of my art the thing that is strange is that this man that ive never met but became very familiar due to all of the reading of his books but he is a very large piece of my expression in art which is strange to me that he could do that without ever meeting me.

study guide

Exam 1 Study Guide
Anthropology 101
Midterm 1 Study Guide
The exam will consist of 60 multiple choice questions worth 1 point each and 2 short essay questions (worth 10 points each, one essay and one punnett square) and one long essay question (worth 20 points). Please bring a scantron (“green” form no. 882-E) and a #2 pencil. Room will be provided on the exam for you to write your essays. This exam will based on the course lectures and your textbook. Do more than simply define or describe a given concept. Try to realize why these topics are important and how they relate to other ideas as well as to the field of anthropology as a whole…. Good Luck and study well.
Chapter 1 – Introduction: What is Biological Anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropological Perspective
Subdivisions of Anthropology
Subfields of Biological Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Biocultural Anthropology
Biocultural Evolution
Ethnocentrism
Enculturation and Acculturation
Culture
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Ethnography and Ethnology
Linguistic Anthropology
Archaeology
Applied Anthropology
Chapter 2 – Origins of Evolutionary Thought
Fixity of Species
Great Chain of Being
Grand Design
Renaissance
Reason
Logic
John Ray
Carolus Linnaeus
Comte de Buffon
Georges Cuvier
Thomas Malthus
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Charles Lyell
Uniformitarianism
Alfred Russel Wallace
Charles Darwin
Fitness
Mutation
Herbert Spencer
The Scientific Method
Fact vs. Theory
Criteria of a Theory
Epistemology
Quantified and Qualified Data
Chapter 3 – Genetics: Cells and Molecules
Micro and Macro-Evolution
Genetics
The Cell
Somatic Cells
Gametes
Stem Cells
DNA
Nucleotide
Proteins
Amino Acids
RNA Protein Synthesis
Ribosomes
DNA Structure and Function
Codon
Gene
Introns and Exons
Transcription/Translation Process
Mitosis and Meiosis
Centromere
Diploid and Haploid
Homologous Chromosomes
Alleles
Homozygous and Heterozygous
Zygote
Crossing Over/Recombination
Sex Chromosomes
Nondisjunction Error
Chapter 4 – Genetics: From Genotype to Phenotype
Structural Genes
Regulatory Genes
Genotype and Phenotype
ABO Blood System
Mendelian Terminology
Law of Segregation
Law of Independent Assortment
Linkage
Types of Mutations
X-Linked Disorders
Polygenic Traits
Pleiotropy
Heritability
Hemizygous
Chapter 5 – The Forces of Evolution and the Formation of Species
Natural Selection
Types of Natural Selection
Darwinian Fitness
Darwinian Mortality
Darwinian Fertility
Sexual Dimorphism
Mutations
Gene Flow
Deme
Genetic Drift
Systematics
Homology
Analogous
Convergent/Parallel Evolution
Ancestral
Derived
Phylogeny
Cladogram
Species Concepts
Gene Pool
Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms
Anagenesis and Cladogenesis
Types of Speciation
Gradualism and Punctuated Equilibrium
Adaptation
Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium
Levels of Selection
Sociobiology
PUNNET SQUARES:
T=Tall, t = Short, Y = Yellow, and g = Green
Parental Genotypes: TtYY x ttgg

Genotypic Ratio:

Phenotypic Ratio:

T=Tall, t = Short, Y = Yellow, and g = Green
Parental Genotypes: ttYg x TtYg

Genotypic Ratio:

Phenotypic Ratio:


Possible Short Essay Questions:
1. Discuss the process of science and explain how it is an empirical and self-correcting process. Provide an example to illustrate the steps of the scientific method.
2. Explain the DNA structure and functions at a molecular level. What are the four characteristics of DNA?

Office Work and the Crack Alternative by Philippe Bourgois


1 For one it is important to remember that there is not a universal reason that people switched sectors. But the things that are discussed in the article include the increase in income due to selling drugs in contrast to working in a factory eight to ten hours a day far from their home and comfort and for only a fraction of what they could make selling. There is also the matter of a large number of those factory jobs are being exported to other countries.
2 Both of these professions are looked at in a way that suggests that those individuals that work in these professions are bad people altogether. When there is a much larger universal at hand that is being overlooked; which is that whenever, wherever there is a strong enough demand for something no matter how strange or illegal people will fill this demand. And for those people that are filling the demand it is not necessarily that they want to be doing something illegal but it is something they can do. Furthermore there is very little training required and the pay is good.
3 This article while I understand all of what it is saying I feel is inaccurate. Sure if you are packed in like sardines as the people in New York are and there are only so many jobs that people without proper training can get. But that doesn’t change the fact that we were all born a clean slate a blank canvas that can be whatever you want it to be. And any of the people that live here can find a way to do just about whatever they want if they stick to it.