ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Anthropology, Moral Panic, Participant Observation
31 Mar 2018
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His experience over turned the victorian notion of the simple savage. With publication of his private diaries complex truth came out about him- what drove him to become the founder and hero from modern social anthropology. He fell in love , and was facisinated by enlgishs social structure he wanted to be part of the english upper class. He had no personal wealth to help him on his way, but he did have brains. He was determined that he should be accepted. His brains took him to the london school of economics where he studied anthropology. To vistorians the people who made these objects appeared savage, theses savages tattooed their bodies and even practised promiscuous sex their lifestyle sent victorians into a spin of moral panic. Anthorpologists (arm chair antrhopologosts) believed that savages were best observed from a far. From their arm chairs they would formulate an option on savage life volume 2.
