ANTHROP 3DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ian Hodder, Bounded Variation, Processual Archaeology
24 Jan 2018
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People collect things without looking at the context or significance of it. They would compare that stuff to what ethnographers had already found. 19th century ideal that primitive societies never change. 1920"s but starts out around the turn of the century up until 1950"s. Everything in terms of science and research expands a lot. Everything is about objective science; a lot of data collected and making sense of it. Builds on the idea that with objective science you can build these universal laws of culture. Essentially every culture goes through the same evolutionary steps; this is all based on the idea that they"re all going through the same processes. The most intensively scientific of all of them. Emerges out of/heavily influenced by early anthropological interest in understanding religion (19th century) Emphasis was placed on similarities in practices across cultures, and where differences did occur it was often based on concepts of progressive development (cultural evolution)
