AN202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Evolutionary Anthropology, Israelites, Marvin Harris
26 Jan 2015
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Universals-> particular: we share certain things as humans called universals. Things like lan- guage, every human has language but there are in nite variations: stages! Look at a cultures beliefs and behaviour : sequences! Which comes before which polygamy precedes monogamy! Lacking: missing data ( eld work) : origins -> in one culture ! It applies to one culture but not to all humans : development -> progress, comparisons! Ethnology taking ethnographic facts and comparing them: energy (food marvin harris), technology- material culture (cultural materialism/ marvin harris)! Stuff that we manufacture aspects of material culture ! Many evolutionary anthropologists focus on natural ! Spear was rst stone tipped item then use stone throwing than make bow and arrow ! Marxist: production relation tools and energy ! Primitive communism morgan got read my marxs & angals and that work got picked up .
