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Jiang defines it simply as the study of other cultures and uses it as a method for reconstructing early human religion.
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anthropology
Jiang defines it simply as the study of other cultures and uses it as a method for reconstructing early human religion.
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For most people in most of human history, money was not everyday utility but symbolic debt, especially a debt that could never really be repaid.
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He treats anthropology as a method for using living indigenous religions to understand the thinking and religion of early humans.
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Because the transition to farming remains unexplained, Jiang says the lecture can only construct theories from archaeological, anthropological, psychological or neurological, and primatological evidence.
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Jiang presents respect for elders as the theory that humans were biologically or culturally disposed to protect old people, making settlement attractive because hunter-gatherer life was hard on elders.
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"If you, if you were just a normal person, what were you doing? Were you in a village growing crops? If you wanted to..."
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"And the answer is, we have a field of study called anthropology. Okay? Anthropology. Anthropology is a study of other cultures. And if our..."
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"So for these three reasons the transition from hunter -gatherer to farming makes no sense and even today we are not able To explain..."
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"...That's so much archaeology Second discipline we can look at is anthropology and anthropology Is the study of other cultures So in other words,..."
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"Okay, so that's a third field we can look at the last field we can look at is primatology a study of primates, okay..."
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"...for whatever reason okay, and again, the evidence for this is anthropology where every culture Respects its elders, right?"
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"...call those people who dig the dirt to find old stuff anthropology archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists holy i blanked out anyway you know you..."
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"...evidence. But I'm just saying that right now, in archeology and anthropology, we do not have any evidence, okay? The last, let me look..."
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"...a social science approach. Okay? So you look at economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology. Right? What are they trying to do? They're trying to figure..."
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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