ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnology, Tristes Tropiques, Neurosis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Bernhard Leistle

Document Summary

Quiz (next week"s lecture not included in material, mix of questions: some directed at knowledge of facts, some at comprehension; writing time 40 min. , app. Clarification of some points: -modern and traditional anthropology traditional is modern anthropology, defined as the systematic, scientific attempt to understand other cultures. Non- traditional anthropology, which in this sense could be called post-modern, would be the attempt to pull the insight that understanding others always entails an interpretation of ourselves into the anthropological research process. It is important, however, to keep in mind that the self-reflective component, the understanding of oneself and of one"s own culture through the culturally other, is always implied in traditional anthropology. What distinguishes traditional from non-traditional, modern from post-modern is the attempt to make this double relation explicit. As an example we can take another look at boas"s photo in which he poses for a diorama of an exhibition.