ANTHROP 3PD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Said, Franz Boas, Snail Mail
18 Apr 2018
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Is a direct outgrowth and legacy of the enlightenment and a colonial period referred to as modernity. Modernity = period from 1700"s-1950 in the west that represented a time of enormous change in technologies, communications and in how people think. This impacted (obviously) how anthropologists think about, and represent, those they study. Franz boas (1858-194, father of american anthropology. To be modern : meant that you embraced science and technology, believed in notions of. Progress : impact on anthropology, that it is possible to obtain an objective view of other cultures, that some cultures are more progressive than others. Progressive cultures are collectively labeled as western cultures. Legacy of this categorization: essentialism distilling an entire culture into a set of stereotypes, think about how non-western peoples are represented today in the mass media. Isis/isil/daesh: isis represented by west as barbaric.
