ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, Original Affluent Society, Marshall Sahlins
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Thinking about cultural difference from an anthropological perspective, certain people think that some practices that people have are uncivilized. Modern does not mean contemporary, in anthropology traditional mean they rely on gender and age for identity and socialize w/ kin: modern means there are lots of ways to express identity, communication is not always face to face. Important: in ur writing try to refrain from using modern unless u actually mean contemporary in anthropology specifically. Primitive vs traditional: primitive has a moral judgement, that traditional doesnt, people can call themselves traditional, but they wouldn"t call themselves primitive, traditional society anthropological term. Advanced technology: these are moral judgements about what it means to be human, and if you are in a primitive culture then you are being denied some parts of your humanity by some people. The couple in a cage video ( probably on exam) What kinds of things mark the couple as primitive: clothes, dancing.
