ANTH 2500 Lecture 3: Lecture 3
15 Jul 2015
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Interdependency and impersonal bureaucracy: ceremonial centres as cosmic certainty , new social measures and reactions to property and status, greater social, economic and political opportunities for some, cities serve as hotspots for technological and economic development, defining country, state and nation, country a territorial area, politically recognized as a country both by people within the territory and by governments outside of it, on the basis of historical, material, and geographical factors . A medium of communication has an important influence on the dissemination of knowledge over space and over time the relative emphasis on time or space will imply a bias of significance to the culture in which it is embedded. : heavy media lasting and time binding, space binding media paper or electronic communication, heavy media examples, clay favoured temple dominance in mesopotamia quick to dry and must write quickly, papyrus (cyperus papyrus) use red and black ink rounded and cursive script by.
