ANTHROP 2PA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lewis H. Morgan, Unilineal Evolution, Unilineality
8 Mar 2019
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Principles of stratigraphy and laying groundwork for mod geology (finish: grew up as a neighbor to darwin, became an early supported of his theory and began to apply it to prehistoric stuff. Social darwinism to consider races of inds defeated in the survival of the fittest as fundamentally less fit. Less tech advanced were cultural, intellectually, and emotionally more primitive than civilized ones. Emerges as the use of unilineal evolution schemes ie progression thru stages of savagery. Barbarism civilization: notions that all societies are moving forwards and will eventually reach civilization (eu) The great chain of being and ladder of intellect: origins in plato, aristotle: developed in medieval eu most thoroughly applied in 1800s. Succession of stags along a unilineal path leading to the pinnacle (just below celestial levels) of. Victorian english society: all societies follow this path, unilineal cultural development and inevitable progress: core ideas heavily built on armchair speculation and ethnocentrism.
