U69 Anthro 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lewis H. Morgan, Unilineal Evolution, Social Evolution
25 Jan 2017
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Industrialization: rapid social changes prompts new questions about nature of society. Theory of evolution: from biological to social theories to explain human differences. Colonialism: need to govern other people as incentive to study them. European global expansion contact with other societies. Ex. british empire: where do differences come from bt colonies/ how best to rule all of them. How to explain cultural difs bt humans (cultural anth) How to explain bio origin of humans and other species (biological anthro) How to understand human antiquity based on old artifacts (arch anthro) We were all once civilized (tower of babel) but after dispersing some generated while others remained civilized: progressivism. History is characterized by advances from primitive to civilized. Cultural traits originate in one area and then spread to other areas. Culture circles: cultural traits originate at multiple sources, connections like webs bt societies. All societies follow same evolutionary trajectory (econ, polit, social, religion, rationality, etc)
