ANTH 510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Ecology, Takers
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Dpgs only due the week you present. Shoshonean performance video las vegas environment. Complexity- hunting species: leadership shows complexity ability to work together for a common goal. Different leaders- not bound by power, but by role. When they meet whites, they became hierarchical- introduce chiefs to have representation. Violence raises after horses and conflict: level of cooperation and coexistence despite main way to organize, complexity shown in pg. 170: they utilized100 species of wild plants: when there is conflict? pg. 172 relocation (shows relation to environment/we are dependent and stuck in ours, they made a living and were not dependent in one place. (any survivalists?) Because we stack ancient societies and judge them with today"s view. We look for the same thing that we have, what we have done: problem with complexity: it has given us problems! Extinction, fossil fuels, environmental disasters, destruction of the planet: different social/cultural goals. Can"t use the same framework to evaluate others.
