STS200 Lecture 7: Agricultural Revolution

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Science, Technology, and Society
• Course: STS200
• Professor: Nathan Kowalsky

Document Summary

Prehistory continued/reviewed ( is it natural to seek mastery of nature? . It doesn"t look like mythological thinking deeply wanted to change and turn itself into science: many societies exist that do not place great value on material progress. Fichman: truth and falsehood aren"t really what we assumed them to be. Myth is not necessarily false because it"s not even trying to be true in the scientific sense and it may also have a non literal form of truth. Myth is not a worldpicture/model/representation of material facts. It"s not a theory. if myth isn"t a theory, then it cannot really be false: ritual does not aim to achieve material satisfaction. Agricultural revolution: we evolved with fire and tool use but not with agriculture human response in social settings. We have options: before agriculture, the primary method of getting food was foraging. This was looking for food. a response to some external stuff, and only in certain places.