ANTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Primitive Communism, Question Answering, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Intro to marxism, engles and marx 19th century evolutionist of a different bent. Turne the evolutionary models of morgan, taylor and spencer inside out. Other guys argued that cultural institutions were the product of rational thought. Marxists thought that all thought was a product of cultural instituions which were shaped by the mode of production. All agreed that culture was learned rather than innate. All agreed that tech and economy were important to the state of affairs. Engles and marx saw theorists who were also reacting to a very specific historical moment- the condition of workers in he industrial revolution. Reaction to condition of workers in the industrial revolution. People went to cities because of change in how land was obtained- farming change out for industrial agriculture. No safety standards to speak of, no 40 hour work week, crowded living conditions, short life expectancy, illness spread rapidly, etc: basic marxist model.
