Assignment task: Which of the following represents an anthropological approach to the idea of "progress"?
Group of answer choices
1. Research shows that modern life is better than a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Agriculture produces more food for more people, so no one has to be hungry. Hunter-gatherer life was very hard and often insecure.
2. The whole idea of progress is ethnocentric. It is based on a Western worldview, and it has been used to justify the colonization of indigenous people around the globe. Research has shown that hunter-gatherer lifestyles are actually quite comfortable and involve less work than agricultural systems.
3. Many undeveloped cultures around the world do not have access to education so people live in primitive ways. If people were educated, they would be able to develop their culture to enter modern life. This would improve their circumstances. Technology would make life much easier. Modern medicine would make their lives healthier and more comfortable.