ANTH 2 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 9/30/16
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Modern knowledge: statistics and anthropology: modernity, popular usage: current, actual, up to date, academic usage: society, economy, and culture since 1500. Organizes work through repayment of wages economic system (b. 1. a. 1) Invest in profit (not like hunters and gatherers) Technoscientific accelerated development (b. 3. a. 1) organized world of science. Political relationship between europe and western world (b. 4. a. 1) ex. Political philosophy with different understanding of the individual (b. 5. a. 1) understand the role of the individual with. Way that institutions and organizations are structured (b. 6. a. 1) ex. Dmv: new way of living and understanding structure/organization of our world. Ex. missionaries go over world to try to learn about population, govern them, and extract resources. Able to do this because of institutions created. B. 2. a) governments: description and measurement requires categories for people, places, things. A-z with all categories and descriptions w/pictures: diderot. Alexander von humboldt: first person to go to america not from spanish world, looked at how americans were structured, humboldt"s statistics (his book)