ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kalabari Tribe, Zande People, System On A Chip
15 Nov 2013
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Horton: says theoretical thinking is pretty universal. Difference in terms of open vs. closed systems of thought though. Western people are a bit more challenged in this regard interact more with technology than with one another. Acceleration in technology in western soc means we rarely connect face to face anymore. Relate to impersonal theories because we are an impersonal soc. Theories we have to exploring the world are based on impersonal agencies: theory of light, gravity etc, all impersonal. Traditional mode of understanding is mapped by the fact that they interact face-to-face. Understand references to personalistic theories because their entire world is made up of interactions with those who connect to one another: so diff in the style of thinking, but not a diff in scientific thought. Don"t be blinded by the fact that one uses a personal idiom and one uses an impersonal idiom.
