ANTA02H3 Lecture 8: Class notes for lecture 8
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Caveats of primitive or modern: the word modern is being used in quotation marks; to indicate the use of the term cautiously, ironically, and critically. To t ry not to objectively label individuals as primitive: to call individuals primitive is ethnocentric. In anthropology to be modern, is used as a particular distinction between traditional vs. modern, in terms of size, scale, and belief system: prefer to use the term, in contemporary times". The term modern is spoken as characteristics, social organization. Dichotomy of primitive vs. modern, in relation to time: time is a social construct; for us we think of time as money. Relationship between language, structure of thought and time, we divide time into parts or units: our sense of time is linear, we see the past as being over, it"s done spatially: behind us. We think of the future as being ahead of us.
