ANTHROP 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Luminescence, Harris Matrix, Obsidian Hydration Dating
20 Sep 2016
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Space and time themselves are neither things nor events: they cannot even be observed . Drawing from sociocultural anthropology, also from geography, philosophy, sociology, meaning lots of different perspectives. Can think about territorial boundaries, institutions, and political economy. ^marked in materially complex ways: colonization, population dispersals, and hybridity. Institutions, organizations and communities transformed materially, materials impact peoples, practices and institutions in the same way institutions impact people, practices and materials. In one system you have central watch tower with cells arranged around tower. Wouldn"t have prisoners able to communicate and would have surveillance. Always feeling as though you could be watched. How behaviors can be constrained in a society. Always shifting places in time and relationally with the intentions of the people using the place. Classroom is a place, used for meeting space. Memory, emotion, and belief of how to use a place.
