Ehret-civs of Africa Flashcards
When being uncivilized happens
During periods of breakdown of the social and political order
Loaded words
Tribe,primitive,and race
Civilization
A grouping of societies and their individual cultures,conjoined by their sharing of deep common historical roots
-share a range of fundamental social and cultural ideas
And less fundamental customs and expectations
Tribe
How its degrading
-10 million Igbo people of southeastern people called a tribe while 400,000 citizens of Malta were called nationalities
- Shaka Zulu
- leader of centralized and militarily powerful state is called a tribal leader
-tribes gives a sense of being exotic,dangerous,and perhaps out of control
Primitive
Definition and why no one is
Conveys an unflattering picture of backwardness and lack of skill and accomplishment
- every culture has historical roots reaching thousands of years back
- every human community has its areas of expertise and intricate knowledge
- every language has thousands of words that are able exemplify the ideas and things humans know and feel and do
Civilization(again)
Historically linked groupings of peoples and societies,identifiable from their common possession of certain basic cultural ideas and societal practices