Hello, Welcome! My name is Logan Faircloth and I am currently a senior at Appalachian State University. I am a Biological Anthropology Major graduating in December and hoping to then get into Nursing School. I created this blog for one of my classes called Human Evolution or ANT4320. I will be posting a lot of reflections, my thoughts, and possible notes or informative information regarding our class theme, Human Evolution. I hope you enjoy it!
This past week in ANT4320, also called Human Evolution, we were assigned as a class to read three articles. The first one was by Athreya and Ackermann in 2018 called Colonialism Narratives Human Origins Asia Africa. This article focused on the type of theories regarding the human origins (like the out-of-Africa model), but while reading this article one major point stuck out to me. We cannot and will not get the "true origin" model without the incorporation of non-whites (this includes Africans, Asians, Whites, and any other "race" that exists). This reminds me of a topic discussed in one of my classes last semester called Cultural Anthropology. In this class during our ethnographer discussions, we discussed that an anthropologist must get the native's point of view along with his own point of view in order to "correctly" interpret a culture. How is this not the same when it comes to trying to find the human origin? The second article, It Is ...
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