ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transnationalism, Mantra, Deterritorialization
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2 predom. rules on how to study human cult. /nature. We have stopped looking at societies as how we have emerged from a particular. Antb20 - week 10 (1) a progressive developmental paradigm: study of cult"s as they evolve (2) a migrational/diffusionary paradigm: how they are diffused over space and time. Spread while maintaining certain properties but also adapting society we have evolved from what they are now and can now trace that movement stopped doing this. We now know there is no socio-cult. evolution where we started off as a static culture and we have evolved (stopped looking at west. as point of modernity) Idea that we can map human beings has not gone away e. g. geneticists still trying to prove one can trace one"s id to a partic. place in world or group movement from world. Words to speak about natural world: ancestry, affinity had to use terms that were available.
