ANT210H5 Chapter 1-4: Midterm notes Chapter 1 -4
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So basically, from the example in chapter that the guy gave us about morning of the. Magicians, he thought every part of that book was interesting and believable until it came to the archaeology section of the book, which was his expertise. This can be related to many of the worlds mysterious phenomenon"s that we relate to superstitious beliefs. Fraud for archaeological standpoint is due to money, fame, nationalism, racism, religion, the desire for the romantic past, and just crazy minds. Epistomology the study of knowledge, how you know what you know. Everybody knows things but how do we really know. People collect information in two ways: experience or indirectly through tv, parents, internet and stuff like that. Like seeing is believing but our eyes aren"t that reliable, many of these accounts of sightings are usually because of imagination. Deconstructionists, for example, insists that all science and history are merely artificial constructs, devoid of any objective reality or truth.
