ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Evolutionism, Nationstates, Ethnocentrism
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Why do people believe different things, and why are they so certain that their view of the world is correct and other views are wrong? (robbins, pg. 131) Encompassing picture of reality based on shared beliefs about how the world works. An atheist has a worldview, just not a religious one. Theory that societies proceed through a series of stages to reach civilization. Chiefdoms (number of tribes to come together, kinship, consent to rule by a chief) Who are the others in the u. s. nation-state? (ex. national borders) Shift to plant cultivation (wheat, barley, maize) & animal domestication (sheep, goats) Shift from agriculture to industrial goods, the factory system, & urbanization after. Majority of population went from being farmers to laborers in western europe & The idea that human history is the story of a steady advance from a life dependent on the whims of nature to a life of control & domination over natural forces (robbins, pg. 350)
