ANTH 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Multilinear Map, Emergence, Ecosystem Ecology
8 Jun 2016
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Leslie white, evolutionism, idea of revolution from one category to the other, white"s ideas. Stewart, how can you de ne cultural ecology, his answer to white, his own take on evolution (why is it multilinear and what is multilinear) Anthropologists would be occupied with internal ows, new directions producing system indices, emergent behavior from simple rules. Ef ciency is the use of the lowest amount of energy and this leads to sustainability. Cultural functionalism; everything is cultural helps to keep people together, creates social bounds and de nes what is the community and what is outside of it. Even con ict shows that you belong to one group and are standing against another. Homeostasis: to keep all ritually mediated ecosystemic relations between a certain sustainable or acceptable cycle and not to go outside of it (rappaport) Vida and walter rede ned it as: to keep the main function of a system + to regulate relationships simply.
