ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Philosophy, Nationstates, Manuel Gamio
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Modernity: new way of living and understanding the world around us -> shapes anthropology through a long process of trying to generate knowledge about the world. Popular usage: current, actual, up to date. Academic usage: society, economy, and culture since 1500. Capitalism economic system; search for profits; organizes work through the payment of wages. Industry/technology techno-scientific development that has accelerated; organized knowledge in the world of science. Colonialism political relationship between europe and the rest of the world; looking for resources for their capitalist economy; finding things and economic resources. Liberalism political philosophy that emerges from the modern period; set of ideas that are developed through representational government and understand the world of individual society. Bureaucracy the way that organizations are assembled with different divisions; new phenomena. Territory (places) geographical locations, new nation-states. Population (people and cultures) within this territory. Resources (things) within this territory -> labor, gold, silver, sugar, etc.