Section 1 Terms/concepts Flashcards
Indigenous peoples of canada
Positionality is
1) the social and political context that creates your identity and
2)how your identity influences and biases your perception of and outlook on the world.
Unilineal evolution
advanced by social theorist of the 19th century, this long discredited theory proposed that human civilization developed linearly through a sequence of progressive stages
New cultural forms emerge from old ones
all societies progress through the same stages of development.
Lewis henry morgan and theories of human/cultural evolution
1877 proposed that advances in social organization (culture) arose primarily from changes in food production
Shifting cultivation
Biases associated with plow technology
Doctrine and discovery
Terra Nullius
is a term that refers to a “territory without a master”.
A term used in international law to describe land and that