ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lewis H. Morgan, Edward Burnett Tylor, Franz Boas
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Subjectively: a hand that is moving has meaning. There is no objective perspective to understand culture. Intersubjective: cultural anthropology tries to build credible knowledge by combining different subjective perspectives. Emic perspective: grasp the native point of view. Etic perspective: use theories to analyze and interpret culture. Cultural relativism: we need to set aside our own cultural categories and meanings to understand other cultures. Interpreting other cultures in terms of their own cultural context. Most people naturally have an emic and ethnocentric perspective on their own culture. Psychic unity: all human minds operate on the same natural logic. Comparative method: primitive cultures represent earlier stages of advanced societies. Armchair anthropology: used data from travelers, missionaries and colonial administrators. Notes and queries on anthropology for the use of travelers and residents in uncivilized lands . Unilineal social evolution: all societies pass through the same stages of evolution as they progress. Ethnocentrism: assumed his culture was the best.
