ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edward Burnett Tylor, Forensic Anthropology, Ethnohistory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Study of humankind in all places in all times, deals with human nature. Broad interest in a variety of things (biology, cultural, linguistic, archaeology) Biology: trace evolutionary development of humans, biological variations, look at apes, Archaeology: explain human behaviour by studying material culture. Cultural: contemporary human culture, humans as cultural animals. Herodotus (5 bc) & ibn khaldun (14th ad) old examples of anthropologists. Relatively new discipline, slowed down due to limit of human technology. Cultural arrogance arose from cultural imperialism, colonialism, dominant evolutionary theory. Euro colonialism reached zenith in 17 & 18th century w/ eng, port, fren, dutch in africa & americas. Age of enlightenment (late 18th century) arose from attempts to offer scientific explanation 4 human diversity. Early anthropological theory introduced: cultural progress (timeline to reach western ideals) 19th century cultural evolutionary theories put out by american anthropologists edward tylor & Herbert spencer, eb tylor (founder of cultural anthro), darwin.