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A 5 page discussion of how we as a society have transitioned from a time when things were retained until they were no longer useful to where we toss away our material culture on a whim. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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most reflective of those premises is cultural materialism. One has only to peruse the number of square miles of landfills that we have in our own culture to recognize
that we are a throw-away society. Landfills are big business and our culture facilitates that fact. Just as was the case with more primitive societies, we produce waste
products. Instead of middens of emptied shellfish, however, our society leaves huge conglomerate landfills in its wake. To support the contention our
material culture actually facilitates modern day landfills, a facilitation that can actually be described using the anthropological theory of cultural materialism, we have only to consider the recent $314 million
garbage deal that has just transpired between the Folsom-based waste management company Waste Connections Inc. and Harold LeMay Enterprises in Washington state. This is just one of four hundred
similar deals negotiated by Waste Connections since the 1990s (The Recorder, 2008). The growing number of landfills that we have in
our country can be directly linked to the fact that our material culture is a transitional culture and one that is often replaced essentially on a whim. Everything about
our lives is now disposable. We drink out of plastic bottles and paper and styrofoam cups. We even eat out of paper and Styrofoam trays using plastic utensils.
We dry our hands in the restroom on disposable paper towels. We even shave using disposable razors. Our electronics are outdated practically the moment that we walk
out of the store with our new purchases. We drive only the newest model cars and live in only the most modern of homes. Our clothes are retained
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