ANTH267

Beginning in the middle to late 20th century, human organization and experience has increasingly been influenced by digital forms of communication and production. Do these changes make us new types of people and societies? By putting the digital world in the context of the major periods associated with organic and mechanical technology, this course examines who contemporary people are and whether or not they are unique. The answer to this question will focus on how technological changes the individual, social organization and the relationship with the natural world. Sources from historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, political scientists and ecologists will be used to reconstruct these worlds.