ANTH-0024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Nature, Marcel Mauss
5 Nov 2016
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We are not alienated from nature but we naturalize things too much. Core assumptions- work is primarily how humans interact with the environment. How can environmentalism not make common cause with that: most environmental devastation happens with work (think logging, for example) What is human nature in these readings: vogel- nature is everywhere. Overtime, we have become more controlling of nature overtime: we are technological (we are a fundamentally different human than a h. What is alienation in the pop-culture sense: alienation from the environment, a bit more extreme than marxist. If we alienated the product from the worker, we are devaluating what gives back to us. How do we weigh the importance of certain actions: alienation from the artisan to the product, consumer mindset- everything we touch was made by someone else. It is not possible to consider who has made each product and where it has come from. We have, perhaps, alienated our self too much.
