DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lev Vygotsky, Christiaan Huygens, Indo-European Languages
Document Summary
Book: process of civilization, importance of fire goudsblom. Neolithic revolution transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer society to farming and settlement around 10. 000 bc (working in a team) Fertile crescent region in the middle east with a high level of civilization at around (including ancient mesopotamian and ancient egyptian civilizations, origin of the western culture) Pre-literate civilisations: know-how understanding rather than theoretical, fluidity of knowledge, limited to two generations main function of oral tradition is transmission of practical skills, collection of myths and stories about life etc. Sir edward burnett tylor (1832-1917: anthropologist, animism: explanation of the workings of the world and the universe by means of spirits with human-like characteristics, distinction between thinking of primitive people as opposed to the then growing. Myths contain important values but are often contradicting only when things become written down they show patterns etc. According to lindberg scientific thinking cannot occur without written records.
