ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lewis H. Morgan, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead
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The fathers are lewis henry morgan, tylor sir edward burnett, boas. Moms include ruth benedict, and margaret mead in particular. Some of the fathers may be better described as grandfathers, since one, franz. Boas, was mead and benedict"s intellectual father, and because what is now known as boasian anthropology emerged primarily in opposition to morgan and. Early anthropology dominated evolutionary perspectives, especially those linked to morgan and tylor. The early 20th century saw numerous responses to the evolutionism of the. Functionalists like malinowski and alfred reginald radcliffe- Brown in great britain rejected the evolutionists " romantic historicism in favor of studies of present-day living societies. Boas and his supporters in the united states rejected the quest for developmental stages in favor of a historical approach that traced borrowing between cultures and spreading cultural characteristics through geographic areas. Both functionalists and boasians have presented societies as being blended and patterned.
