ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: The Affluent Society, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Edward Burnett Tylor
24 Oct 2014
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Neoevolutionist who saw human history as having passed through 3 stages: hunter gatherer, agrarian, industrial. The periods between stages were transitions, and he was concerned with how these transitions occurred. Developed prominent anthropological approach to the study of nationalism (established centre for the study of nationalism. Early ethnographic work in morocco, among the berbers of the atlas mountains at ceu in prague), and key latter-day theorist of modernity ~ founder of nationalism. Author or editor of over 25 volumes (ethnographic, philosophical, historic) The three stages: hunter-gatherer society, agrarian society ( agraria", industrial society ( industria") The factors that led to the historical development. It is notable for its icy indifference to values, its failures to console and reassure, its total inability to validate norms and values or to offer any guarantee of their eventual success " (macfarlane. 1996:209): the open predicament is one where logical consistency and openness is bought at the price of social and moral inconsistency.
