ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Karl Polanyi, Donald Worster, Jared Diamond
20 Mar 2016
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Jared diamond"s guns germs and steel highlights interesting ecological conditions that facilitated development of complex nations, dynamics between humans and animals (domestication), argument that world system of today is simply a result of geography. World system single, capitalist world system committed to production (of goods and services) for sale or exchange with the object of maximizing profits rather than supplying domestic needs create need through advertisements. Key claim of world-system theory an identifiable social system, based on wealth and power differentials, extends around the globe. In guns, germs, and steel jared diamond suggests that the inequality of the world. System is due to the luck of geography europeans were lucky to naturally have access to most productive crops, animals, and farmland, which allowed for development of more advanced civilizations. The world system did not emerge naturally as a result of geography, but form significant cultural transformations that reshaped social and ecological relationships around the world.
