ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mound Builders, James George Frazer, Age Of Enlightenment

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Anthropology"s roots in classical science (not yet scientific). Homer (8th c bc) and vergil (70-19 bc) classical poets who were more humanistic. Presocratics thinking about the origin and nature of the cosmos and embodied world. Presocratics different from early poets as well as from the tradition of mythology (in which deities made the world) Anaximander: everything from one element, that is everywhere. Empedocles: things encounter each other and combine, and the useful creations endure while other things go away. Democritus: human bodies and minds come from constantly moving universal particles, and these are getting better and more refined over time. Herodotus (484-425) called (cid:498)father of history(cid:499), traveled and observed other system based on kinship. (ere begins (cid:498)politics(cid:499) and (cid:498)citizenship. (cid:499) countries and cultures, and wrote things down. Observed diversity in an objective way, correlating it with geography and climate etc. Said differences were cause by human (not divine) acts.

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