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Chapter 2 The Meaning of Progress |
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Problem: How do we explain the transformation of human societies over the past ten thousand or so years from small-scale, nomadic bands of hunters and gatherers, to large-scale, urban-industrial states?
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Introduction: The Death of a Way of Life |
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Question 2.1 Why did hunter-gatherer societies switch to sedentary agriculture? |
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| Life among Hunter-Gatherers: The Hadza and Ju/wasi* | |
| The Transition to Agriculture | |
| Producing Potato Calories | |
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Question 2.2 Why are some societies more industrially advanced than others? |
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The British in India |
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Cotton, Slavery, and Indian Removal |
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Indian removal |
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Question 2.3 Why don’t poor countries modernize and develop in the same way as Wealthy countries? |
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The Case of Brazil: Hunger in Brazil |
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Question 2.4 How do modern standards of health and medical treatment compare with those of traditional societies? |
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Illness and Inequality |
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The Meaning of Illness Ju/wasi Curing Ceremony |
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Question 2.5: Why are simpler societies disappearing? |
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Tourists and the Ju/wasi |
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Globalization and Cultural Diversity |
| Case Study 2: How can a critical understanding of the concept of economic development be useful for career opportunities? | |
| Anthropologists in Development | |
| Using Indigenous Knowledge | |
| Women in Development | |