ANTHR207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Victorian Era, Social Anthropology, Empiricism
27 Dec 2015
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5 anthropology in history and the explanation of cultural. The age of discovery (15th 17th century) Start to see increasing number of european trader and sailors to seek out new routes, Encounter people that looked different from them (skin colour, hair colour, body stature, facial features. Also had different behaviours, and different languages, different dressed, different customs (therefore different culture than the sailors) - europeans thought they could not be related to them at all. Map new lands and places and peoples, and cultures. Resulted in reshaping the world view, created new opportunities that would have been unknown to the europeans previously. For both sides it was a new encounter and new acknowledgement. The age of enlightenment (17th 18th century) How much are they the same and how much are they different. Rational thought start to replace traditional beliefs and myths. Start to shape how we look at the world. Replace and challenge other people"s beliefs and traditions.
