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Talks: What does local/indigenous knowledge tell us about human evolution and psychology

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for his What Does Local/Indigenous Knowledge Tell Us About Human Evolution and Psychology presentation. The notes talk about Barkow's studying of the Bugis people of Indonesia, in two of their villages, and how though their cuisine is exquisite, their knowledge of nutrition and child nutrition was fairly poor. The reason for this is because the Bugis competed with each other in terms of which family held the best tasting and most varied meals, not which meals were more nutritious. For Barkow, humans operate with social intelligence, that only deal with problems when there's a competition around solving them.

Talks: We are all successes, says the Reverend: a not too serious look at evolutionary psychology

File consists of notes for Jerome Barkow's We Are All Successes Says Reverend: A Not Too Serious Look at Evolutionary Psychology seminar for the Dalhousie Biology Department. The notes are about Barkow's analysis of evolutionary biology, how it is essentially ignored by anthropologists and sociologists, how the public now views evolutionary biology as a universal rather than the answers offered by religions, and looking at different components of evolutionary biology like sexual selection, and mismatch theory.

Talks: We are all animals (University of Toronto)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper We Are All Animals, presented at the Victoria College, for the Animals: A Reappraisal conference at the Victoria College located in the University of Toronto. The paper focuses on how, even though human conceptions of the universe have changed, namely how we're not at the center of the universe, humans still retain species-centric ideas about how they are better than other organisms. Barkow explains how looking at humans as animals can be useful in anthropological and sociological studies. Other items include a letter from Paul Bouissac, professor at Victoria University's Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, giving Barkow his tickets and travel information for his trip from Halifax to Toronto for the conference; and an outline and brochure for the Animals: A Reappraisal conference, namely the objectives for the conference, and the schedule of the presentations.

Talks: Vaccination for the genetification pandemic: the social sciences in the emerging age of biological hegemony

File consists of notes for Jerome Barkow's Vaccination For the Genetification Pandemic: The Social Sciences in the Emerging Age of Biological Hegemony presentation, for the annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association in Hartford, Connecticut. Notes and presentation are about the Age of Biology, and the new fields of science in behavioral ecology, animal behaviors, neuroscience, biotech, and human genomes, and how social-cultural anthropologists and sociologists resist studying these topics. Barkow proposes "vaccinating" these fields of studies by having them actually engage with the biological topics that fit in with anthropology and sociology.

Talks: Universals and evolutionary psychology

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Universals and Evolutionary Psychology, presented to the International Congress at Stadhalle, in Heidelberg. Paper is about Barkow's beliefs on universals and anthropology. In 1998, Barkow said that universals weren't generally accepted in anthropological study, considering anthropologists were wary of cultural biases affecting their work. In Barkow's opinion evolutionary psychology is a universal, and that it can help anthropologists with their studies on social constructionism and cultural differences. The other item is a letter from Birgit Vey to Jerome Barkow, giving him a program for the 1998 International Congress, and asking for how long he will be staying in Heidelberg so she can set up appropriate hotel reservations.

Talks: Type 2 diabetes and the murky issues of identity and blame

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for his Type 2 Diabetes and the Murky Issues of Identity and Blame presentation. The notes talk about type 2 diabetes, explaining the causes and impact it has on people's health, how it may become a stigmatized disability, much like HIV/AIDS and obesity are in Western society. Diabetics will become stigmatized, because people will regard them as personally responsible for getting diabetes in the first place, and being a drain on society in general. Public health campaigns would only serve to further ostracize diabetics for not having made healthier choices, both prior to their diagnosis and in the present. As Barkow states, diabetes isn't stigmatized yet, but he believes it to be a prospective study for anthropologists to look out for.

Talks: The professor's jukebox: punctuating lecture with music

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for his presentation The Professor's Jukebox: Punctuating Lecture with Music. The notes talk about how Barkow used music, namely his favorite folk music tracks, to spark a reaction from students. Sometimes the song played could be in contrast to the content he was presenting, which could evoke amusement or disquiet from his students, or he used the music to signal that he was switching topics.

Talks: The origins of the capacity for culture - Calgary

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper The Origins of the Capacity for Culture, presented to the Canadian Anthropological Society in Calgary. The paper discusses the how anthropologists can learn about human psychology by analyzing that psychology, and applying it to evolutionary scenarios of how we acquired certain traits or behaviors.

Talks: The mallam in Maradi - New Orleans

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper The Mallam in Maradi, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. The paper is about Barkow's analysis on the mallam, local moral authorities on the Quran and chief supernatural practitioners in Hausa communities, who generally advise and fulffill requests by petitioners, which can include, men women, peasants, nobles and laborers.

Talks: The 1951 atom is the 2001 gene (Carleton University)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for his The 1951 Atom is the 2001 Gene presentation at Carleton University in 2001. The notes talk about how advances made in studying biology and genes will help to advance mankind, just how the discovery of the atom and nuclear power was regarded as an advancement by people during the 1940s and 1950s. Barkow posits that problems like war, world hunger, pollution will all be changed or mitigated by genetically tailored solutions. But for Barkow, what interests him about genetics is that they help to explain human nature, like how our emotions are tailored by our evolution.

Talks: Strategies for self-esteem and prestige in Maradi (Niger Republic) - Chicago, Illinois

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Strategies For Self-Esteem and Prestige in Maradi (Niger Republic), presented to the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Chicago. The paper itself centers around the issue of self-esteem and privilege in humans, looking at three Hausa individuals, and how their practice of Islam provides another route for them to maintain and enhance their confidence and place in society.

Talks: Prestige and culture - Coe University

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for Prestige and Culture, his talk at Coe University. His notes talk about how the dichotomy of man vs. nature is false, how human cultures, and the individual's constant need to get more prestige than everyone around them, are built upon our own biological natures.

Talks: Notes on attention structure, ethology and inclusive fitness theory - Paris

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for his Attention Strucutre, Ethology and Inclusive Fitness Theory talk in Paris. His notes talk about the relationship between human ethology and sociobiology (or as it was first called, inclusive fitness theory). Barkow believes individual traits are because of biological evolution, and are present in us because they helped keep humans from thousands and millions of years ago fit and healthy.

Talks: Missing the revolution: Darwinism for social scientists (University of Durham)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for the Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists presentatio, given for the Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, at the University of Durham. Notes consists of Barkow discussing how social scientists have essentially ignored the "Darwin's revolution" going on in other disciplines, where scientists apply a naturalistic framework to studying human nature and society. This leads to social scientists using outdated or simplistic theories on topics like evolutionary psychology, which Barkow states is the infrastructure for human culture and society.

Talks: It's neither the inspiration nor the perspiration, it's the competition: knowledge generation in Homo Sapiens (University of Newcastle-on-Tyne)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper It's Neither the Inspiration Nor the Perspiration, It's the Competition: Knowledge Generation in Homo Sapiens, presented at the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne. The paper is about how social competition between people is how we developed most of our knowledge and technology. Barkow analyzes the food and cuisine of the Bugis people in Indonesia, and how the fact that their cuisine is exceptional in taste but poor in nutritional value is due to the fact that families competed over wedding feasts, and who had the most tastiest and varied dishes. The Bugis became interested in developing those qualities of their food, not necessarily the health of their food.

Talks: Human courtship in ethological perspective - Toronto

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Human Courtship in Ethological Perspective, presented to the American Anthropological Association in Toronto. Paper is about courtship, or "the heterosexual reproductive communication system leading up to the consummatory act", how it is generally common across most of the human world, and that the fundamentals for how people court others doesn't change, which Barkow exemplifies through courtship behavior in primates.

Talks: Hausa women and Islam - Montreal

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper, Hausa Women and Islam, presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, in Montreal. The paper itself is about how the process of Islamization affected Hausa women, and how Hausa women of the 1970s compared to non-Muslim women in the same community (referred to as Maguzawa).

Talks: Happiness

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for his Happiness presentation. Notes consist of talking about evolution and the ways human brains have evolved, preclude human happiness in many ways. Barkow states that evolution is about remaining in motion and seeking what you desire; if someone is happy, they wouldn't feel the need to go out and improve themselves, they'd just be content with what they already have.

Talks: Evolved psychology underlies society and culture

File consists of documents relating to Jerome Barkow's paper Evolved Psychology Underlies Society and Culture, presented at the Conference on Evolutionary Psychology in Amsterdam, 2002. The paper focuses on how social competition between humans in the ancient past affected their evolutionary development; humans deal quicker to short term risks than long term ones due to how we evolved; the only way we can deal with said long-term issues like climate change and poverty is by channeling our evolved psychologies into something beneficial. Other items include a program for the conference, which in particular, gives a summary of why the conference is being held, a small biography of Barkow, and the other attending academics, and information on businesses in Amsterdam that might be of use for the conference attendees, like copy centers or restaurants.

Talks: Evolution, altruism and ethnocentrism among extraterrestrials: a thought experiment

File consists of documents relating to Jerome Barkow's Evolution, Altruism and Ethnocentrism Among Extraterrestrials presentation at the Encoding Altriuism: The Art and Science of Interstellar Message Composition workshop. The presentation is about evolution, altruism and ethnocentrism in humans, how we developed those three things, and how alien extraterrestrials might have attained such evolutionary processes, much like any other organism might. Other items include a program schedule for the workshop, and a list of speakers for the event with their accepted papers.

Talks: Everyone liked Charles Darwin (King's College)

File consists of notes for Jerome Barkow's lecture Everyone Liked Charles Darwin, presented to the University of King's College Foundation Year Program in 2002. The presentation is about Charles Darwin, an Englishman born during the 19th century, who wrote The Origin of Species, which revolutionized scientific thought by positing the ideas of natural selection and the evolutionary progression of humans. Barkow goes over Darwin's life, how he was interested in biology and studying different species, and how he became such an extensive traveler and scholar. He also explains why he was so popular in his day, as well as debunking myths about him. The other item is a letter to Barkow from Kyle Fraser, associate director of the Foundation Year Program, thanking Barkow for agreeing to give a lecture to the Program students. He also gives him his lecture date, explains what technologies are available in the lecture hall, and inviting him to attend other program tutorials.

Talks: Do extraterrestrials have sex (and intelligence)?

File consists of Jerome Barkow's presentation notes on Do Extraterrestrials Have Sex (and Intelligence)?. His notes discuss the hypothetical scenario of extraterrestrial beings existing, making contact with humans, how that contact would affect our culture, and using studies on human anthropology and sociobiology to analyze how extraterrestrials might behave.

Talks: DNA, cultures, sex and status: how will old brains design new bodies and new societies

File consists of Jerome Barkow's presentation DNA, Cultures, Sex and Status: How Will Old Brains Design New Bodies and New Societies, presented at Carleton University. Presentation is about Barkow's analysis of new futuristic technologies that some people think would have catastrophic effects on human society, like genetically perfect designer babies, the internet, or cloned organisms. Barkow believes that regardless of what new technologies will develop, humans will still remain humans, and the new technologies we create help to serve our old goals: competing with one another for prestige, making ourselves more appealing, validating our opinions.

Talks: Controversy over genetically modified foods (University of the West Indies)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's Controversy Over Genetically Modified Foods article in the Extension Newsletter, published by the University of the West Indies. The article talks about genetically modified, what they are, how they were developed, and how Europe and the United States differ in how they deal with genetically modified food, such as how they classify food products, the benefits and dangers of genetically modified foods, such as how they could improve the food's quality and quantity, but could result in long-term health effects for those who eat them considering no one knew the effects of GM food in 1999.

Talks: Comparing your culture and mine (talk for Dal International Student Orientation) 1997

File consists of Jerome Barkow's notes for the Dalhousie International Student Orientation on August 29, 1997. The notes talk about Barkow's experiences as an anthropologist, his study of culture and humanity, and comparing different cultures like that of the United States and Japan on topics like cleanliness, family, and social class structure.

Talks: Comparing your culture and mine (talk for Dal International Student Orientation) 1996

File consists of Jerome Barkow's presentation notes for the Dalhousie International Student orientation on August, 1996. The notes center around Barkow talking about what it feels like to be in a new place, learning about the culture of said place, and the history of culture and race in Western civilization, and comparing and contrasting cultural practices, like cleaning, emotional control, and childcare between the United States, the Middle East and Japan. The other item is an outline for the orientation, detailing the schedule, and where the event is being held.

Talks: Challenging the psychic unity of mankind - Boulder, Colorado

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Challenging the Psychic Unity of Mankind, presented to the Animal Behavior Society meeting at Boulder, Colorado. The paper is about challenging the notion that there is a psychic unity of mankind, how our genes, culture, and behaviors are supposedly supposed to be the same because we're all linked. For Barkow, said hypothesis has gone on for too long as unchallenged by so many different fields of anthropology, and he believes his paper puts it deeply in question.

Talks: Building on the basis of A. I. Hallowell - Washington, DC

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Building on the Basis of A. I. Hallowell, presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Washington, DC. The paper is about Barkow's praise of A. I. Hallowell for his contributions to the field of anthropology by introducing sociobiological topics, in new and challenging ways, on such topics like the evolution of behavior, protoculture, and the concept of self.

Talks: Biosocial anthropology needs a marriage counselor - Banff, Alberta

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Biosocial Anthropology Needs A Marriage Counselor, presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology. The paper is about how the idea of comparing humans to other primates in an anthropological and biological context, has been largely disregarded, considering most scholars still believe in humanity's special status as an evolved species.

Talks: Beyond the popcorn: what happens at the movies (Ghent, Belgium)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Beyond the Popcorn: What Happens at the Movies, presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ethology in Ghent, Belgium. The paper itself is about Barkow's analysis of films, how they draw our attention, how the reason they are able to draw our attention is because of the ways humans evolved to process information that relates to whatever group they are a part of, how humans identify with film characters because of hedonic and agonistic relationships, and how the success of the characters inspires us to be the same way they are.

Talks: Anthropology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence: evolution and ethnography - London, Ontario

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Anthropology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Evolution and Ethnography, presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society in London, Ontario. Papers is about Barkow's questions, inspired by NASA's SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program, on if there is intelligent life outside of Earth, and whether or not they are similar to humans in whether or not they have culture, are self-aware, are xenophobic, have similar psychologies, and similar moral beliefs to ours.

Talks: Ambivalent identity: Muslims and Maguzawa in North Central State, Nigeria - Waterloo, ON

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Ambivalent Identity: Muslims and Maguzawa in North Central State, Nigeria, presented at a meeting of the Canadian Association of African Studies, in Waterloo, Ontario. The paper itself compares the Hausa and Maguzawa cultures located in Northern Nigeria, and the misconceptions both groups have about each other, namely their history and beliefs. The paper also talks about the similarities between the two groups like how they both grow the same crops, live in the same kinds of homes, and eat the same foods.

Talks: Altruism among the Migili (Koro) of Nigeria

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper, Altruism Among the Migili (Koro) of Nigeria, presented to the 1980 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. The draft version of the paper is about explaining Migili norms of altruism by analyzing them through the lens of ethology, psychology, socialization, history, ecology and culture.

Talks: Against the ghettoization of sociology (Evanston, Illinois)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper Against the Ghettoization of Sociology, presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Evanston, Illinois. The paper is about how topics like evolutionary medicine, drug dependency, and mental illness are not researched extensively by most sociologists, because they are sociobiology topics, which is regarded as similar to social-Darwinism, and all the racist ideologies that spawned from it. Barkow lists out some practical steps to legitimize sociobiology in the minds of sociologists, namely by picking out individual work that are just hate literature, and not sociobiology, educating authors of sociology textbooks on what sociobiology actually is, and actually creating a book specifically on that topic.

Talks: Against the ghettoization of sociology (Departmental Presentation)

File consists of notes for Jerome Barkow's presentation The Ghettoization of Sociology, presented to the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. The notes are about how sociologists typically do not engage with sociobiological topics, because they are seen as politically correct topics. Barkow talks about his experiences with the sociologist and evolutionists, and how the former needs to recognize the fact that evolutionary theory can enhance the research done on their pre-existing topics, while evolutionists need to realize that some of the people in their community are actually racist and discriminatory, and that not all accusations of such behaviors are defamatory.

Talks: A second visit to the Hausa courtesan - York University

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper A Second Visit to the Hausa Courtesan, presented at York University. The paper centers around Barkow discussing the Hausa courtesans referred to as karuwanci, how they differ from Western conceptions of prostitutes, and Barkow's new findings on how the Hausa courtesans are becoming more like urban female migrants found across Africa.

Talks: A comparison of Moslem and non-Moslem Hausa in Northern Nigeria - San Diego

File consists of notes for Jerome Barkow's talk on comparing the Moslem and Non-Moslem Hausa in Northern Nigeria, to the American Anthropological Association in San Diego. The presentation centered around analyzing the process for how the Hausa underwent "Islamization", and Barkow's argument was that the Hausa in rural areas became Islamized through a process called positive feedback identification; the legitimate rulers of the Hausa, the Fulani, were Muslims, so in order to better identify with them and become more prestigious in their communities.

SOSA 2400 R medicine and health across cultures 1987-1988

File consists of course documents relating to SOSA 2400R Medicine and Health Across Culture, as taught by Jerome Barkow from 1987-1988. Items consist of course syllabus'; student lists with names, ID numbers, degrees, assignment grades and final grades; and exams with answer keys on yellow loose leaf paper.

SOSA 2400 R medicine and health across cultures 1987 (special Micmac version for Maritime School of Social Work)

File consists of documents relating to SOSA 2400 R Medicine and Health Across Cultures, as taught by Jerome Barkow from 1987-1988. Items consist of a course review, done by Barkow himself in 1988, going over the positives and negatives of the class, how the students engaged with the material, how the coursed tied into Native North American content, and what Barkow would do differently next year if he were teaching it; student lists with names, ID numbers, degrees, and assignment and final grades; the grading policy for the Micmac Bachelor of Social Work Program; a memo to all the faculty, sessional and field instructors at Dalhousie from D. O'Brien, Chair of the Bachelor of Social Work Committee, stating that students must maintain a B- average for each of their 5 credit courses, and two specific courses (SW 1000-Introduction to Social Work, SW 4020R-Field II); a list of recommendations for students writing their term papers, as put forward by Barkow; exams; a folder containing information on the Micmac Bachelor of Social Work Program, such as describing the courses, how the classes are structured in terms of assignments and research student feedback sheets, recommendations from previous instructors in social work courses; and a Dalhousie University Bookstore textbook requisitions form, filled out by Barkow, for 20 copies each of Medical Anthropology by George Foster, and Human Sickness & Health by Connie Wood.

SOSA 2400 health and illness across cultures notes 2001

File consists of course documents relating to SOSA 2400.06XY Health and Illness Across Cultures, taught by Jerome Barkow in 2001. Items include exams; and lecture notes on topics like the discrepancy hypothesis, cultural judgments on the body, the four humors and balance of the body medical theory, nutritional anthropology, obesity and feminism, public health systems, the World Health Organization.

SOSA 2400 health and illness across cultures notes 2000-2001

File consists of course documents for Anthropology 307, taught by Jerome Barkow from 1971-1975. Items include notes about international health issues like disease, overpopulation, pollution and environmental damage, culture and substance abuse (drugs/alcohol), culture and pain, sexually transmitted diseases (STD), and impairments.

SOSA 2400 health and illness across cultures 2000-2001

File consists of course documents relating to SOSA 2400X/Y Health and Illness Across Cultures, taught by Jerome Barkow from 2000-2001. Items consist of a letter to Barkow from Victor Thiessen, stating that a teaching assistant has been assigned to his class; a note to Barkow's students, telling them how they can give Barkow feedback on any offensive topics that come up in class; exams; assignment descriptions, like for book analysis; lecture notes on the anthropological topics of epidemiology, the Human Genome Project, social inequality, psychiatry, stress, nutrition, health beliefs, social constructions of illnesses, cultural judgments on bodies, health care; and student lists with names ID numbers, assignment grades, and final grades.

SOSA 2400 health and illness across cultures

Files consists of a document relating to Jerome Barkow's SOSA 2400.06XY Health and Illness Across Cultures course held in 2000. Item consists of the second quiz from that class, with the answers embedded in the questions.

Slides: Story of ancient man (32 slides)

File consists of 32 microform slides of the Story of Ancient Man, presented at the American Museum of Natural History. Slide content includes drawings and paintings of ancient humans and wildlife, depicted in artistic and cave paintings; photographs of metal and stone objects, like pots and painted rocks; bust statues of people; skulls, bones and anatomical depictions of early humans; models of houses.

Slides: Indians of the Amazon - the Karaja (24 slides)

File consists of 23 microform slides of the Indians of the Amazon - The Karaja, presented at the American Museum of Natural History. Slide content includes carved and stone objects; photographs of Karaja villages, and everyday life, including crafting, boating, swimming and fishing; different pieces of Karaja clothing and body paint; photographs of a crocodile and large bird.

Slides: Eskimos of Alaska Coast (24 slides)

File consists of 24 microform slides of the Eskmios of Alaska Coast, presented at the American Museum of Natural History. Slide content includes photographs of Alaskan landscapes, towns, houses, churches, boats; photographs of Eskimo clothing; photographs of everyday life including cutting up and drying out seaweed and fish, prepping airplanes, catching beluga whales, canoeing,
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