ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jared Diamond, Social Change
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Hedican: document lives in disappearing people indigenous people limited impact on the environment low population density low rate of consumption: no mega projects low impact cultures. Jared diamond: agriculture is the biggest mistake we have made today. Globalization: barker: embrace of the most remote places on earth in a single economic system and single communication system, affect people differently, hedican: independent communities are being wrapped up into the world through means of communication. What do we have, if anything, to learn from the maisin: lnnu (hunters in labrador) Hunters and bombers film-maker: hugh brody indigenous people often because of action of agriculturalist and industrialists (like diamond) Conceived of about the heart and the mind, belief in something abstract. Intangible aspects, focused on ideas like souls. People think that religion is quite ancient, not really belonging to the present. People believe that religion is unchanging and traditional. Actively produced in the present through our everyday conditions.
