MMW 11- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Study guide: creation, time, & the calendar. Mircea eliade: (1907-1986) people tell stories to establish culture. Each time a story is told it is relived. Tyler: (1832-1917) myths are premature science/ways to explain unknown. Roger bacon: wrote clement iv about calendar deficit- work titled opius maius. Claudius ptolmey: (100-178) also noticed calendar deficit/errors. Ptah: memphis god of egypt who created world via masturbation (ennead of. Lunisolar: sunset-sunset marks a day; each new moon is a new month; added a. Animism: individual beings/creatures have souls & there is a rank/hierarchy of deities/big souls (sun, moon, earth, river, etc) Sex segregation (water (m/f) mud (m/f) earth/sky (m/f)) Purusha: human strategies for universal problems: paleolithic to neolithic. Thomas hobbes: life was short, brutish, cruel, solitary, poor, nasty. John von newmann: (1958) technological singularity if tech development keeps accelerating eventually it"ll hit a point of constant development where nothing makes sense. Sexual dimorphism: male and female look physically different/secondary sex characteristics & size.
