ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Hunter-Gatherer, Bionics
1 May 2015
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The human dimension myth, cosmos, and nature. Essential to know how different cultures though about nature and how the thinking about nature began. Myth: stories that are powerful enough that they may be taken as true. Power comes from tapping into ones unconscious, they explain/portray/disrupt basic rules and structure about the world. Mythology: collection of myths; most collections of myths are mixtures of stories, genealogies, origin tales. Canonical myths: myths that are being used to explore or illuminate central concerns of a society. Ideologically: societies reproducing themselves in a language and physically. Cosmologies: overall maps of how the universe is structured. Ontologies: explanations of the nature of being; what does it mean to exist. Archetypes: basic patterns of stories that appear worldwide, though in different forms. Mythical stories operate in variety of styles and languages often different than standard prose.
