ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Marshall Sahlins, Elman Service, Axis Mundi
18 Dec 2017
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Solidarity integrity that holds society together (different groups of people and institutions such as law, family, education, etc. ) Collective consciousness realms of values, beliefs, attitudes and sense of history shared in society. Mechanical vs. organic solidarity homogenous vs. heterogeneous. Taking these 10 traits and relating them to both durkheim and marx: large, densely populated settlements. Example of uruk and its high population: economic specialization. Due to food surplus not all people are full-time agriculturists: taxation. Who is profiting from this: monumental architecture. Can be related to collective consciousness or false consciousness: presence of class divisions, writing and recording plus useful sciences. Sense of shared history collective consciousness. Taxation/economy division of labor: predictive sciences: math, astronomy, fulltime calendrics. Ideology in sense that not all members have equal access to specialized forms of knowledge. Ruling elite specifically educated in calendrics or control ritual and agricultural calendar. Justifies elite right to rule: other specialists such as full-time artists.
