SOSC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: English Civil War, Smallpox, Classical Liberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

Part a: holmberg"s mistake, holmberg was an anthropologist that lived with an native american tribe called serona from 1940- Exam review: holmberg argued that the serona were culturally backwards because they had no art or design, no religion, carried fire from camp to camp, sleepless nights. He said that serona were example of primitive human kind in the state of nature. Holmberg believed they lived uninterrupted, outside of history. Mann says that holmberg was right about the serona being culturally improvise however his reason was wrong. New finding that serona had villages but killed off by small pox. The village has about 300 people now only contains 150. Genetic bottleneck happened which occurs when there is a huge population decline and they resort to recreating with family members. Mann says they were fighting catal rangers for their land. Serona were fighting the rangers and because of that they were sent to prison camps and had to work on land.