ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Original Affluent Society, Marshall Sahlins, Sociocultural Evolution
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Marshall sahlins, richard lee, james woodburn, mark cohen (population density. What is the relationship between our conception of time and are ideas about what it means to be primitive ? a. b. c. d. Therefore peoples who seem to live in the same ways as our ancestors, without changing, are understood to be primitive, and stuck in the past. Contemporary hunter-gathers and indigenous peoples are seen as: a. b. i. ii. iii. Living fossils needing to be civilized or rescued or developed . Thinking of progress in this way makes it hard to see cultures objectively, on their own terms. The detrimental effects of narratives of progress and. The detrimental effects of narratives of progress and development (examples from the textbook) The cherokee removal (aka the trail of tears) in 19th-century usa. Modes of livelihood and forms of social and political organization. Why did most human societies shift away from foraging? a.
