ANTHROP 2PA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emic And Etic, Scientific Revolution, Paleontology
8 Mar 2019
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The dark abyss of time: intellectual foundations and cultural history. Is a system of meaning (what ind think) Antiquarian period: 3 radical ideas during enlightenment, 3 scientific revolution that laid foundation for anthrop. Is learned, shared, patterned: wide scale, not rational but rationalizing and dynamic. Framework that makes sense of world: wild shifts over time. Structures and is structured by human action in the material world. Geology: archaeologists collect data about ind moments or series of events and try to organize them in temporal context. Can be modern: after 1900 its mod, historical arc: written records. Issues: selective representations of the past: we are actively addressing this issues. Further back we go the less we see. There is academic and public anthrop arc: academic: Justification for research based on research qs and granting agencies: museums, uni, research, public: Your work is directed to where it is needed: there is not one arc.
