ANTH 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Franz Boas, Elective Affinities, Primitive Accumulation Of Capital
11 Apr 2018
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As a testimony of your faith, means is engagement in the world and ends is being saved . Humans exist for the sake of their business p. 32. The question shapes the way in which you interrogate the historical material 13-14. We as an elaboration on existing concepts you ask question, answer is in the historical: the historical situation cannot define the question, must draw a linear narrative of how the situation has come to form. Objectivity by weber is not one that looks for laws but for problems. No causal relation: it"s not protestantism>capitalism or vice versa. Were talking about elective affinity: convergence. Assembling into what eventually becomes the spirit of capitalism. Only once the phenomenon has arised can you go back and make the linkages. These linkages are not cause and effect, cannot be reproduced as laws. Leave the broader sense and enter the discipline of anthropology, look at the debates that take place within the discipline.
