CHST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Participant Observation, Ethnocentrism, Ernst Haeckel

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Child Studies
• Course: CHST 1000
• Professor: Monica Patterson

Document Summary

Field work: watching children play games (primary source) Historical documents journal aricle ( secondary source) The broad study of humankind around the world and throughout ime. The great chain of being: scala naturae (ladder of nature) It arose as a kind of race science. Anthropology started to emerge coming out of the enlightened ideas and impulse with understanding the world. This image shows a hierarchy of all the beings in order of their importance. God at the very top: ulimate power. Vision of the order of the universe in hierarchal terms. Lesser beings are ighing, while the higher class are watching them. Darker skin colour is on the botom. The value and the worth of the people that are portrayed. The europeans had an advantage as they had guns, they had a superior military power. Anthropologists were concerned with mapping out human types. Asians were usually put just below caucasian men in the hierarchy.