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* * * * * * * * * * Links to Weekly Lecture Notes: Cemetery Recording Exercise Instructions Example questions and study guide for Exam 1 * * * * * * * * * * For your Week 5 weekly e-mail responses, write a sentence or two linking the video of The Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte to the reading from last week: "What Are Friends For?" by Barbara Smuts (#3 in Applying Anthropology). (Click here for video.) Pay careful attention to the end of the Smuts article, where she describes the implications of the Baboon behavior she observed for traditional views of how family life evolved. How do Jimmy Castor's Caveman and Bertha Butt fit within this scheme? Is Castor's view of the development of family life "traditional" in the sense that Smuts describes, or was he ahead of his time? * * * * * * * * * * On December 1 in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery Alabama because she was Black and she refused a bus driver's demand to give up her seat to a White man. Is it difficult to believe, these days, that a person could be arrested for this? Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat, her arrest, and the ensuing publicity, became a major milestone in the history of civil rights in the U.S. The very bus she was riding that day is now on exhibit in a museum. You can read more about Rosa Parks here, and learn what she meant by the phrase "Like a quilt on a winter night". How might we apply biological and cultural understandings of "race" to Rosa Parks' arrest?
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