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- Is there a “shadow biosphere” populated by living things that appear to be nonliving things, like the spreading (or, self-replicating, growing) varnish on desert ... nition. The working assumption is that all living things are related through a single evolutionary origin.... y that it has a common ancestry with other living things, and thus has something in common with them, even
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- d in the most basic sense, a theory of what makes things what they are: an ontology. Metanarratives of ch
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- more history, colonialism has been many different things. This is about the latter stages of European colo
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- ormal practices and tacit knowledge about getting things done are merely vestiges of older modes of social... lot of different people doing a lot of different things They are acting //as if// there is a single stat
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- urally conditioned in Western societies: * New things are inherently good. * History moves from the o... old, rather than develops or extends it. * Old things are inherited from the past; new things are created by individuals who want to create them. * This is a
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- es. Capitalism is a system in which all valuable things can be owned as private property. * Hence, pro... o others who own capital needed to produce useful things. ===== “The fetishism of commodities and the sec... === Appadurai, Arjun. 1988. //The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective//. Cambridge... Kopytoff, Igor. 1986. “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process.” In //The Social Lif
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- essence, or is it just a name for many, different things? ==== Two responses ==== <HTML> <table> <tr> <t... are good choices. What to do? ===== Solution 1: Things are what they are in essence; something is either... One solution would start from the assumption that things are what they are. Everything that is, has a sing... y is clear. A is not (A or B). ===== Solution 2: Things contain multitudes; there is a unity of opposites
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- h Wolf and Sahlins **agree** on a two fundamental things * They **agree** that societies are not stati
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- ience: * Durkheim: “[C]onsider social facts as things” (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 60) * The implicit ru... re **do not** agree on everything or say the same things; they **do** think alike in one important way. ... Wolf recognize that people only want and work for things they are taught to value in the context of their
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- n the same material world, but they see different things because they each have different systems of signs
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- generations developed new ways of thinking about things. - Anthropologists critique themselves and thei... al basis for contracts**. ===== Social facts are things ===== There are indeed many unstated rules for s
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- generations developed new ways of thinking about things. - Anthropologists critique themselves and thei... al basis for contracts**. ===== Social facts are things ===== There are indeed many unstated rules for s
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- s: * A search for a //logos//, or a reason for things * An acceptance of the inherent flux of reality... dividuals have agency.) ===== Old and new ===== Things change. But so what? Why is it that in some socie... urally conditioned in Western societies: * New things are inherently good. * History moves from the o... old, rather than develops or extends it. * Old things are inherited from the past; new things are creat
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- essence, or is it just a name for many, different things? ==== Two responses ==== <HTML> <table style="b... are good choices. What to do? ===== Solution 1: Things are what they are in essence; something is either... One solution would start from the assumption that things are what they are. Everything that is, has a sing... y is clear. A is not (A or B). ===== Solution 2: Things contain multitudes; there is a unity of opposites
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- h Wolf and Sahlins **agree** on a two fundamental things * They **agree** that societies are not stati