ANT207H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Immune System, Annual Plant, Ethnography
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Pinpointed when creation occurred, according to bible. Timeframe for history of world = shaky (due to discoveries) Makes comparisons with savages, primitives / draws analogies. Data" taken from discipline of natural history (anthro, history, etc. , all together) / separate in darwin"s time. Historians: concerned with written record and understanding of past based on writing/reason. Anthropology: archaeology records, biological changes, studying people with no written history. With collapse of biblical timeframe, came a separation of history and anthropology. Several disciplines = quite influential to shaping history. I. e. volcanic eruptions) main explanation for all change, how species are made. Convenient, fit with short history of earth. Slow rate = changes timescale of how everything develops, Philology creation of earth: historical linguistics, sir william jones (r/legal scholar) Sent to india, to devise legal system. Had to figure out laws people follow for british. Studied sanskrit, persian/well versed in greek and latin.
