ANT200H5 Lecture : ANT200 (Nov 1).docx

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Term test 1 (nov 24) 3:10-4pm in nb134: all lectures and text, format: 15 mcs and 5/8 sa (15 pts for each section, 30 pts total) Contextual dimensions: formal, spatial, temporal, all the above is considered culture history. Cultural dimensions: material processual, social social agency. Normative" = generalist: mechanism of culture change. The inevitable variation model is so simplistic and general that it is of little use in archaeological interpretation ! (ashmore and sharer 2009:211: cultural invention. New ideas originate within a culture, by either accident or design: cultural selection. Those cultural traits that are advantageous to members of a society are accepted or retained while those that are useless or actively harmful tend to be discarded. Basis for most of the scientific debates: cultural drift. Cultural transmission is incomplete or imperfect; no individual ever learns all the information possessed by any other member of the society. We become extremely specialized: cultural revival.

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