ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Uptodate, Age Of Enlightenment, Social Evolution
18 Sep 2016
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2016-09-17 9:15 pm: recap, space and geography, the social organization of space- subway, house in andes, spatial segregation in cities, nation states and cyber space, state, society, culture, cosmology, nature vs. culture, critical thinking. Metaphors of time: something moving toward you, a pursuer, a moving object, a landscape we move through, a limited resource (like money, a container, a changer. Cultural example: looking forward into space, backward into time: optimal vantage point for named site is where, centuries ago, western. The social organization of time: clocks, calendars, schedules, seasons, activities. Marked time: rites of passage: arnold van gennep (1873-1957, dutch-german-french ethnographer, the rites of passage (1909, liminal stage of particular interest to anthropologist victor turner in. Now you have a new status- university degree and can work in a certain field. The sacred: examples: more religious: prayer; site of religious worship, less religious: commemorative meals and other events, less secular: giving birth, more secular: sports tournament.
