SOSA 1100X Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Spacetime, Human Nature
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This [use of indigenous-style costumes on christian events] illustrates how gebusi, like other peoples, do not simply reproduce their past events even as they draw upon it as a renewable resource the resource of culture. (168) How do the gebusi feel about these changes: their okay with that, they like health care, technology, excreta but appreciate their old way of life too. Atypical: human nature can change (1 in 3 adults murdered not a, traditions are not an all or nothing thing (and do a mix of murder in 20 years) both) Knauft writes: through culture the paths of the past continue to fertilize those of the present, even if the latter seem increasingly large and well-trodden. (176) What is globalization: social theorists argue that the speed of social life over the past few decades has increased so greatly that social space has become compressed or even annihilated. Described the sense that the world has shrunk.