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Anthropology lecture talks about relatives
The reason you have grandmothers, first and second cousins, nephews and math helps to get it just right
Paula Duran / Roundup
The first installment of the Anthropology Lecture Series for the 2009-10 academic was conducted by Dwight Read, a professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles, Thursday at 1 p.m. in the large Physics room at Pierce College.
It was an afternoon for expanding knowledge on interesting topics related to human beings. The first lecture went quickly and was delivered clearly.
The series was about kinship identification, a term used to refer to relatives, but Read said the main expectation for the talk was “to make students aware that the kinship system can be expressed mathematically.”
Many students from math classes attended the lecture.
The series has been given for five years. Aside from giving students a way to earn extra points in class, the purpose of the series is to educate students and develop subject matters by bringing well-known speakers with interesting topics to share their knowledge.
The beginning of the series was a complete success and the room was at full capacity.
“It was pretty intense and great,” said Bruce M. Rowe of the anthropology department.
The lectures are sponsored by the Department of Anthropological and Geographical Sciences and the Associated Students Organization of Pierce and will be bringing more opportunities for those in need of extra credit or current information.
Laura Rangel, a freshman majoring in child psychology, said, “It was a great talk. It taught me valuable information I didn’t know and was a great topic.” pduran.roundupnews@gmail.com
The next talk will take place Nov. 12 and will be about orangutans that have been preserved in Indonesia. The anthropology department will post the exact times soon.
