Category: Assignment

Do you think Aldo Leopolds Land Ethic or the indigenous land ethics weve read about can challenge the negative consequences of disembedding and our current mode of organizing economy and society?

What is disembedding (as described by Capek)? What does it have to do with the structures created within capitalism? Do you think Aldo Leopolds Land Ethic or the indigenous land ethics weve read about can challenge the negative consequences of disembedding and our current mode of organizing economy and society? When describing our current mode of organizing economy and society, think about using environmental sociology concepts we learned about in class if you can (such as the double-edged nature of science from York, Treadmill of Production, Ecological Marxism, Risk Society etc).

Discuss the principal differences between Paleolithic and Neolithic societies.

Discuss the principal differences between Paleolithic and Neolithic societies. How do we see this manifest in the artifacts left behind by each?

 

  1. What cultural and technical innovations were made by the Sumerians? When we look at their artwhich is visually more complex than Prehistoric art–how can we tell that were seeing a greater degree of civilization?

 

  1. What is iconoclasm? Why is it done? Cite an example.

 

  1. What is the Code of Hammurabi? What does it tell us about kingship and religion in Mesopotamia? How do the artists use text and image to convey Hammurabis ideals?

 

  1. What do the Pyramid Texts of Egypt tell us about their ideas about death and salvation?