SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unilineality, Michel De Montaigne, Food Security
1 Nov 2016
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Initially anthropologists interested in going to the most far flung places in the world, and finding universals to weave grand theories about the original states of man . 1533 le bon sauvage montaigne coins the nobel savage . Indians seen as human but did not behave as the europeans considered natural . Darwin applies survival of the fittest to human society. Lewis h. morgan"s theory: 19th century unilineal evolution: savagery, barbarism, civilization. Social theorists ranked people from around the world on an evolutionary, progressive, unilineal and universal scale of culture, culminating with themselves at the top. (hard labour progressively leads into industry (food security) and society, villages into cities). Foraging was assumed to be a life of food risk and hunger. Cattle ranching was encouraged but repercussions (deforestation), other options better. Noun of process, tending to something (ex. 18th century cultivation applied to humans, sophistication, to be cultivated civilized .
