Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (Back to course Home Page) For your 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). 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?
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