ANTH 1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Brain Size, Unilineality, Social Evolution
18 Jan 2017
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Said that in a state of nature life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short , a. Said whites" are at the top of the ranking; blacks and australian aboriginals are at the bottom. Said society is like a biological organism because it is a system with structures and functions and because it requires a certain level of social evolution. Said society began as an undifferentiated, simple" system (organism) and throughout evolution, societies developed specialized structures (such as government) Sir edward evan evans-pritchard (e. e evans-pritchard for short) Wondered why the culture of native tribes" was different than his own. Realized that learning about culture meant living within the culture, with the people. Researched the azande people of southwestern sudan in 1926. Took him 7 weeks to access the population nowadays it takes far less time for. Monday, january 16, 2017 anthropologists to access their eldwork.
