ANTH 2002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Animism, Evolutionism, Salvage Ethnography
15 Dec 2016
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Anth 2002 22/01/16 lecture 2: introduction to ethnography. The origin of ethnography ethnographic transition dates to classical period early works were ideological and embellished and used to justify oppression . Herodotus (the father of history) was first historian known to collect his materials systematically and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative the. 3 keys to the birth of ethnography: 1. History of ethnography: division of labour in the social societies sociology: Europen, industrial societies quantitative surveys and uqueationnairs anthology: non-european small scale, non, qualitative data allows allows for detained description, participant-observers. 19th century anthropologists like edward tyler and james frazer practices ethnology. Bronislaw malinowski (1884-1942) studied tropbriand culture from 1916-1918. Developed ethnographic methods and coined the term participant observations. Goal is to grasp the natives point of view, his relation to life, and to realize his vision of the works argonauts of the western pacific (1922): became methodologically and represented template for future world.
