ANTH 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Anthropology, Bronisław Malinowski, Kula Ring
27 Sep 2018
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Through fieldwork they sought to analyse each part of the body. Each part of society fit together and had its unique function within the larger structure. Economic, social, political and religious thoughts and behaviours with both synchronic and diachronic dimensions. Synchronic study of society, social structure = the matrix of society. British and french: focus on africa and southeast asia. How ritual activities and social institution contribute to social trust culture in and across society. Defines and differentiates social structure and social organization. Regard social anthropology as a branch of social science. Science is only concerned with the general, not particular like history. Functionalism: how parts of a society contribute to the whole of society. Service in empire should be a key goal of anthro. Was stuck on the turonian islands for 2 years because of wwi. Malinowski = often identified as the first practitioner of the ethnographic method of observation-participant.
