GG270 Lecture 4: GG270 LECTURE 4
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Reproduced the power of the wealthier landowners. Blaut"s arguments: diffusionism accepts the insider/outsider model, accepts myth of emptiness in the periphery, gives civilization" in return for resources, diffusion becomes implicit, not tested, and acts as an ideology-eurocentrism. In the europe of the middle ages human observations about the world conformed to. Biblical scripture: belief that the universe also known as the cosmos was the creation of a divine being. the study of such an ordered universe was known as cosmography and its practitioners cosmographers. Included such things as nautical science, geography, astronomy. The renaissance: the renaissance marked an uneasy transition between the medieval and modern ages. C14- c16th: renewed interest in greek and roman cultures fostered humanistic studies in art and science, new, stimulating ideas were spread with the advent of printing. Landscape and colonized conflated: colonizers held enlightenment vision of nature/culture as binary.
