More Problems With Culture 1. The culture concept has been used and misused This notion has traveled around the world it can be considered one of Anthropology's great successes b. Culture has also been distorted 1. Assumptions that cultures have clear boundaries

More On The Nuer 1. Ghost Marriage: a woman is married to a dead man a. Among the Nuer, this kind of marriage is almost as frequent as marriage to a living man b. A living man is found to physically father a child for the dead man. TO understand this, one must distinguish between:

Symbolism and Ritual It's a huge topic, it could cover a whole course 1. Two examples: a. Mariage ritual from the Kuna called\the dragging' i. Bride and groom would not choose each other, but their parents would arrange the marriage secretly. The groom's friends would traditionally surprise him and drag him down the street. (Now a days, they don't fight back so hard and they know ahead of time)

Ethnography 1. INTRO Originally people who studied cultures were amateurs who happened to either be particularly observant or who happened to travel a lot. Some of them did more or less what people did today. a. Ibn Khaldun was a famous Arab scholar who did observations of everyone, including the Vikings

Welcome to the course, which is an introduction to cultural or sociocultural anthropology We will have two lectures and one discussion a week Most of the requirements (a final exam, series of six papers adding up to about twenty pages; at least an hour a week of discussion)is set by the MIT Humanities Distribution system

The number of abdominal segments: Primitively, abdomen is 11-segmented and the terminal segments are usually modified and/or diminished.原始昆虫腹部一般12节(11腹节+ 尾节) Most insects have 9 or 10 abdominal segments, but several of these are reduced

植物细胞的分化与组织形成，包括细胞分化的概念与影响因素、植物组织的类型、功能以及植物的组织系统，重点掌握植物组织形态、结构和功能之间的相互关系

植物体的基本结构单位——细胞，包括植物细胞的形态、结构、组成，重点掌握植物细胞特有的形态、结构特征以及植物细胞特有的细胞器

高等植物中苔藓和蕨类植物的特征及其代表植物，重点掌握苔藓和蕨类植物在适应陆生生境过程中所表现出的形态和结构特征

一、总的要求: 1.课程编号: 2.本大纲适应的专业:四年制动物医学专业 3.总学时及学分:总学时为100~110学时(视教学周数而定)总学分为7~8个学分(按每16学时为1个学分计) 4.该课的先修课程为动物生物化学、动物生理学、家畜解剖学及组织胚胎学等