ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sociocultural Evolution, Unilineality, Scientific Revolution
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The more you read strauss the better you understand and the more obvious things are. But what gives you the capacity to even think: is there a difference between the ways we think and what natives think? (physiological) What to eat what to be afraid of is the beginning. Is there a difference in how we think? (psychological) Western europe- who"s got the bigger army; perspective we need come from natives. Ethnographies of native americans and myth analysis with boas. Was the one that caught boas when he died. Levi-strauss asks a completely different question (inspired by boas) Noble savage- rosseau began to think about civilized world and how were beginning to be worse off than before. Perhaps there is something that enlightened people can learn from natives. Culture- a set of expressions that explains the world to you; provides context.
