ANTH 2160 Lecture : January 16th 2012.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2160
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Diffusion (cultures learn from/influence each other however indirectly ) versus independent invention (different societies develop their own cultures/structure systems independently) static slice of time (synchronic) versus focus on change through time (diachronic) Boas (kwakiutl) malinowski (trobiand islands, later with his students in africa) Colonialism and anthropology ethics art or science? role of anthropologist? impartial observer or situated knowledge/reflexivity. Both articles address ideas about what anthropology is and what anthropology should or could be and some of the types of concerns or questions raised continue today along with new concerns: (documentary: off the verandah) Boas discusses ethnocentricity and spells out that different cultures do not need to go through the same stages of development as the major world societies. There is more than one right way" to develop, grow, and - change. Relationship between power and knowledge anything we say as researchers can and will be used against them".