ESTC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Original Affluent Society, Omen, Neolithic Revolution
24 Oct 2017
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Knowledge: is a way of describing everything we"re exposed to. Different knowledges are based upon their cultural context. A sign: is something that conveys information about its meaning. If the family is strong, forestry will be socially encompassed. The hunter hopes that by being good to animals, they will in term be good to him. The augural system says that the environment is indeterminate and that knowledge is imperfect. Saying that nature doesn"t share with man is profoundly arrogant. It accords priority to the western metaphysics of the alienation of humanity from nature, and to use our disengagement as the standard against which to judge their disengagement. A fundamental difference between deterministic and indeterministic paradigms is. Uncertainty, humility, and adaptation in the tropical forest, the agricultural augury of the kantu - dove, 1993: Uncertainty acknowledges the unpredictability of the environment. Humility because the local people don"t see this as a problem. Adaptation because augury is used as a technique.
