ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Field Research, Mohenjo-Daro, Anthropomorphism
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Increased population density: people are closer together. New social and economic relations: new status ideas. Environmental changes: including decreased species diversity, manipulation of the environment for cultural purposes. Diet & health: including new diseases due to population density, less starvation, more malnutrition and especially new diseases, zoolic diseases (diseases you get from animals, reliable new supply allowing new economic and social roles. We begin to see more status emerging. Definition of the city (page 375: large settlement, dense population, function as center for surrounding settlements, place of social complexity (non-kin; classes, center for production, trade, religion, administration. Between 6,000 -5,000 years ago we see the first cities. Old world are typically are much more densely settled. New world is more spread out in density. Similarly today, almost everyone lives in a nation state. Textbook: (from the perspective of modern states) pg. 376 - 377: governmental entity, politically controls territory, authority to settle disputes, maintains central symbols of society.
