BIOL 1902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Melville J. Herskovits, Franz Boas, Baffin Island
23 Jun 2014
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Mama afrika : prospect township (johannesburg, grammy winner & civil rights activist. Johan gottfried herder 1744 1803: german philosopher, enlightenment thinker, student of immanuel kant, human creativity (unpredictable, highly diverse) as important as human rationality, people"s essence is in their language language is particular (vs. universal) Franz boas 1858- 1942: german- american anthropology, trained in physics and geography, took both observations and studies the objectives to gave birth to american anthropology and establish the first american department in north america at columbia university. Interested in museums, he was able to contribute to a lot of fields. Baffin island 1883- 1884: quote written by boas he wrote about the inuit as his teachers reversed scientist as activist. Impact of environment on behaviour (context over universality: language as marker of human difference ( culture over race, culture concept, cultural concept, cultural relativism, fieldwork: the value of full immersion.
