ANTH 201g Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Materialism, Marcel Mauss
1 Sep 2015
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Anthropology: mid/late 19th century, anthro comes in existence, world being observed in new way, nature was being studied more, natural history museums come about, humans explore world and new species iv. there was a discovery of regularity and pattern in nature, species categorization. 2. real age of earth came about regularities in geo and nature a: humans were being realized as part of nature, human behavior was expected to also show regularity and patterns, story telling, humans thrown from bible mentality, human essence demystified, humans part of nature, evolutionary perspective is coined, darwin, mechanism of natural selection which causes speciation, herbert spencer (before darwin, recognized that human society had complex leveled of development now and developed from less complex societies evolution of societies, reversal of biblical narrative, we didn"t degenerate from adam (thrown out of garden of eden, evolutionary perspective shows society we grew from simple beginnings, e. tylor & l. h.
