{"id":1904,"date":"2009-11-04T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2009-11-04T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T14:55:49","slug":"the-culture-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story<\/a> in Nature News about societal collapse in ancient Peru is worth noting, especially for this quote by one of the main researchers:<\/p>\n

Dramatic climactic events are always used to explain culture change in the Andes. But this is not satisfying based on what we know about human culture. It paints a picture of culture sitting there, not changing, hit by events over which they have no control. But Native Americans did not always live in harmony with their environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purchase Valium Online That last line provided some fodder for an interesting exchange in the comments thread of the story. I really wish Savage Minds<\/a> would take up this meme some day. By happenstance, the death of this giant<\/a> in anthropology is relevant to a wider discussion, which Rex duly notes<\/a> over at Savage Minds:<\/p>\n

First, L\u00c3\u00a9vi-Strauss taught us that Buy Prednisone Online Without Prescription culture is a force in its own right.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/recommended-reading/ The question many scholars struggle with is how much of a “force” culture plays in a society’s own demise–be it the Anasazi<\/a>, the Angkor<\/a>, or even in the widely cited case<\/a> of a certain island people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buy Zanaflex Online Without Prescription This story in Nature News about societal collapse in ancient Peru is worth noting, especially for this quote by one of the main researchers: Dramatic climactic events are always used to explain culture change in the Andes. But this is not satisfying based on what we know about human culture. It paints a picture of… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2462,2470,2572],"tags":[671,687,700,871],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-archaeology","category-collapse","tag-anasazi","tag-anthropology","tag-archaeology","tag-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}