ANTH 1001 Lecture 2: ANTH1001 Lecture 2 PERFECT NOTES
6 Feb 2017
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Cultural anthropology: the study of cultural behaviour, especially the comparative study of living and recent cultures. The comparative perspective is based on the idea that a society or social system cannot be fully understood without comparing it with other societies or systems. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex relationship with the discipline of economics, of which it is highly critical. Religion etc. : or, whether culture was malleable, made up on the go by individual. Edward tylor (1832-1917): primitive culture (1871), tylor is representative of cultural evolutionism. Anthropology, he de ned the context of the scienti c study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of charles lyell. He believed that there was a functional basis for the development of society and religion, which he determined was universal. Tylor maintained that all societies passed through three basic stages of development: from savagery, through barbarism to civilization.
