ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tunxis Community College, Cultural Relativism, Edward Burnett Tylor
6 Jan 2021
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1st: primitive promiscuity there was no family, stage in which maternal side of humanity emerged as dominant matriarchal stage, then replaced by patriarchy which developed into bilateral monogamy. Morgan, e. tylor agreed on this sequence of stages that characterized human. Us, england, france there was a reexamination of evolutionary theory history. It was what most scientifically informed individuals believed. Us: historical particularists school of anthropology; founder known as frand. England: structure functionalism; founders malinowski and radcliffe-brown. In these three distinct environments, three different approaches in study of human behavior emerged. Boas had a series of students (kroeber steward fried cooper) We don"t know what went on at the time, or what matriarchal hierarchy existed at. Lets record information we collect from the world around us, characteristics of that life immediately to salvage the traditions of the historical subject. Seize on the concept of culture as a unifying approach. Inventory of learned behaviors on which humans depend to survive.
