ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brain Size, Torres Strait, Palliative Care
14 Sep 2015
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1920s margaret meade in 1925: 1. Primitive forms of western culture (most evolved) Diffusionists cultural difference, product of diffusion of ancestral religions: became a discipline in itself (had institutional means of studying it, 3. Early bias in the exotic (religion, trade, economic systems) Study of kinship: kinship mapping important skill. Explorers conquering had knowledge of anthro to understand customs anthros became translators and legitimator of claims: management of otherness, colonies and at home (massive migration, remote cultures, peasants, growing urban industrialization. George foster 1914-2006: founder of medical anthro in us, tzintzutzan in western mexico, longest reigning fieldwork 1945 to late 1990s, socio-cultural brain & religion & bio ethnological, factors influencing health and disease, long-term fieldwork essential. Theories come and go but good data is timeless : limited goods whoever has the resources hoards them, cultural responses to envy, culture of conquest.
