ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Doc Zone, Psychopathy, Apophenia
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Why not, we"re a curious animal, there a lot of reasons to be curious about our past. Land claims, nationalism and even political agendas. Goal of figuring out how society functions and how it will survive in the future. Money getting rich (illegal trade, publishing best sellers, keeping history channels) Fame ( in japan, announcements regarding archeological evidence is notified via the press for the purpose of being famous. ) Religion (marting luther"s comment about useful lie ) The past is somehow better than it is today. There were magicians and people with power who don"t exist today. Sociopathic behavior (not people who accept these stuff, but those people that produce these books and stuff) 34% of the us population in 2007 believe in ghost and 23% seen a ghost. The same reason we stare at car crashes. This table is also on page 2 of the text. Also there is no 13th floor in canada.
