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15 Cards in this Set
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What is "Adario"?
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A fictional dialouge between Lahontan and Adario (Huron) which praises Europe.
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What did the terms "Barbarian" and "Savage" mean to people living during the Enlightenment?
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Barbarian - one who didn't speak Greek; Savage - based on habitat.
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The rejection of what was important to Enlightenment thought?
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Original Sin
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What is Deism
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Pursuit of worldly happiness before religious salvation
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How did people explain the lack of large mammals in North America?
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Degeneration
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What anthropological concepts are missing from Enlightenement works?
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1) ability to test accuracy of the accounts travelers provided;
2) Well-rounded ethnographic accounts of people. |
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When did the word "Ethnography" first appear?
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1830's
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What is a key Enlightenment idea?
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Idea of progress
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Did the concept of 'culture' exist to Enlightenment thinkers?
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No.
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Human nature to people in the Enlightenment was viewed to be either ___ or ___.
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Essentially good or flawed and corrupt.
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What is "Degeneration"?
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Decay of nature/society
eg: rise and fall of Roman Empire |
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What were fossils understood to be?
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Extinct animals.
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What was 'civilization' to Enlightenment people?
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attainment of moral and social superiority.
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What is the Encyclopedie?
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A compilement of texts from a variety of authors from different countries.
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What limited yet important attempt allowed writers to think about others?
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The attempt to write a universal history.
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