3 Examples of Exotic Cultures That Weren’t (Per Miller/ Kanazawa)
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1. Margaret Meat & the girls of Samoa
• Miller/ Kanazawa assert that: Meat’s observations of sexually aggressive girls was recounted by her two informants later in life as a way to tell the ANT-ists something that wouldn’t make them uncomfortable.
• Recent historical evidence: illegitimate children & high divorces from adultery may give credence to what she says
• Woman did recount in a videotaped interview
• It is not uncommon to have different “truth” especially of history
2. Napoleon Chignon & the Yanomamo are most violent & the Tasaday are the most gentle .Tasadaty are hoaxes from a government official
• Chagnon dressed up the Yanomamo & made them pose for pictures. Later evidence surfaced that they are often violent but not the extreme he found
• The Tasada were presented as Stone Age & Isolated but it was publicized that the Philppin official had created lies about them to make them seem more gentle & partifistic.
• ANT-ists now report that the Tasaday were isolated not known to official, had no agriculture, spoke a dialect similar
3. Native Americans as the original environmentalists
• Miller/ Kanazawa claim Native Americans used & abused the environment just like other groups
• Evidence may show that species of plants and animals many have also gone extinct while NA lived here, but they don’t account for religious beliefs
• Native Americans & Native Hawaiian often consider the oath to be related to spirituality & religious practices
i. Mother Earth ii. Sacred places iii. Cosmology iv. 20th century: Indian reservation land cleared for large scale agriculture.
1. Adolescence:
• Body weight by % of fat
• Girls : 21.8 -24%
• Boys ; 14-16.1%
• Even among equally fit/ athletic children: girls have more fat
• Strength at age 17: girls can squeeze 59 lbs. Boys can squeeze 98 lbs
• Ability differences:
i. Boys have better spatial