ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Geoglyph, Contiguous United States, Social Complexity
15 Jul 2020
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Determinism: the environment sets limits on humans. Nature- culture dichotomy: the conceptual separation between nature and human culture in many western societies. Nature: natural, bio-physical: external: plants, trees, animals, insects, weather, internal (human nature): desire, instinct, hunger, violence. Culture: social, related to humans: external: cities, civilization, fine art, internal: self control, denial of desire, demonstration on knowledge. Opposed western views of humanity in relation to nature. Nature is pure; humans can exist in harmony with nature as a balanced system. The perfection of the geometric shapes indicates . The fact that a great deal of labor went into them means . Ethnobotanical survey: 85% of plants collected in forest patches were planted by indians. Medicine (fevers, contraceptives, etc: 368 species alone in old forests . Structural factors favor deforestation: policies, prices, inequality, roads. Why is the forest cut down: 90+% is cattle raising and agriculture, the case of acre.
