Dear Chris and All
as for me i do not share Chris's version of materialism
('M.Harrisism', why not Marxism? see below), but prefer social
ontology where each of main spheres (layers) of human condition:
1) material: geography-ecology-technology-demography,
2) psychical: psychics-behavior-communication-interaction,
3) social: (geo)politics-economics-law-social order, and
4) cultural: ideology-worlviews(religion-art-philosophy-sciences)
are autonomous and at the same time deeply interconnected,
and have not constant, but SHIFTING leadership in various historical
epochs and types of societies, f.e. according to R.Carneiro:
geography->demography->warfare->politics(states,empires)
then, maybe
religion->economics->geography-transportation->
geoeconomics-technology-demography->geopolitics->
ideology-science-technology->geoeconomics - mass communication
comments?
Nikolai
>From: christopher chase-dunn <chriscd@jhu.edu>
>
>the best world-system stuff on world views i have seen is that by
>the anthropologist Jonathan Friedman (_Cultural Identity and Global
>Process_Sage 1994). Al Bergesen has written insightfully about art
>and hegemony, and I like what David Harvey says about the
>relationship between flexible specialization and postmodernism in
>his _The Condition of Postmodernity_. But I remain an
>unreconstructed Marvin Harrisite (ist). Ideas are mainly reflections
>of material interests.
(sic! the last thesis is not cultural materialistic, but purely
a marxist-leninist one! - NR)
>But even I have to admit that the current hegemony of neoliberalism
>in a context of declining U.S. hegemony and global crisis is a
>rather interesting phenomenon. Go figure.
>chris
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