ANT 112 Chapter 3: Cultural Anthropology (Eller), Chapter 3: The Origins of Cultural Anthropology
15 Jan 2018
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There are many ways that humans react to diversity: Desire or effort to eradicate the other, either through conquest or. Rejection of the other as less than one"s own kind- and sometimes less than completely humans. Other people"s were usually condemned as savages . Absolute certainty about the truth and goodness of one"s own culture. Lack of info about other societies or poor or patently false info about them. Certainty about your own truth is one possibility thinking and is characteristic of most societies, modern and traditional. The other in early modern experience and thought. Some key factors in this civilization shift: The encounter with other major eurasian civilizations, ex. The voyages of discovery and the rise of colonization, ex. Catholic church struggled with the native americans. The conservative position was that the natives didn"t have souls and were not human.
