ANTH 2002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Panspermia, Thick Description, Ethnography
15 Dec 2016
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Anth 2002 29. 01. 16 lecture 3: critique, scandal, and reflexivity. Trobriand language in his field notes mead describes her language learning process . Critiques of malinowski: sexual fantasies/desires of the women publication of. Malinowski"s personal diary in 1967 a diary in the strict sense of the term revealed racist, misogynist, and sexual sentiments of malinowski during his fieldwork . Ferguson-chagnon controversy: chagnon argues that the yanomamo are representative of a stone age people and that their warfare is caused by competition over women and revenge, argues that killers have more reproductive success ferguson shows that. Focus on power and contestation: cultures are not isolated, homogenous, and static cultures are inter-connected, complex, unequal, contested, and changing eric wolf (1923- 1999) europe and the people without history: e. g. ferguson"s argument that. Yanomamo warfare was caused by competition over access to steel tools by europeans, including anthropologists like chagnon.
