ANTA02H3 Lecture 8: Lecture Eight.doc
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What it means to be primitive and what it means to be modern. Its coming from an ethnocentric point of view. Modern to mean now, but in social science it means certain kinds of cultures that have certain ways of organizing themselves. Modern cultures categorized by rational vs. religious beliefs. In this day and age use the word contemporary. We tend to think of our movement as progress. We are building on the past to be better. We tend to think that humans become more rational as time progresses. Where did the idea of linear time as progress come from. Religion gave background for time western point of view. There will be a time in the future when time will end. Divided time into ancient time which was time of pharos, then medieval time, then modern time. Darwin"s discovery of evolution made it seem that time was not 4 thousand years old. It implies that there was time before literacy.
