ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lewis H. Morgan, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead
11 Feb 2018
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Social anthropology: canadian perspectives on culture and society: Many see theory as a series of advances. Paradigm works in some circumstances, but is it worth our while to see if it works for all aspects in anthropology. Human evolution is a three part phenomenon. People in those societies didn"t have writing and they didn"t have agriculture. Their definitions aren"t worth as much as ours were. Took on as a client, people of the iroquois people and their land claims. American anthropologist who made important contributions to the study of the. Idea of inevitable progress in human society is a faulty assumption. Not acceptable to compare them within one evolutionary scheme. Founded on an aversion to speculative, armchair theorizing. Stressed unique aspects of each culture, thought to result from random historical processes. Cultural relativism: ** each culture should be evaluated in its own terms. Boas developed in baffin island and west coast studies.
