ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychological Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Acculturation
13 Jul 2015
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Chapter 14: ethnographic research: its history, methods, and theories. 18th century european philosophers proposed model of hierarchy of cultures. Idea that cultures are progressing from lower to higher. Still benefiting, goods and services from other countries to maintain lifestyle in canada. Civilization (now agriculture) (now 4th stage- urban industrialization) Basis of legal arguments for right of agricultural societies to displace others. Non-western cultures were called primitive, savage, barbarian. Ethnocentric view of western (and british upper class) as pinnacle of civilization. Anthropology as a discipline begins in victorian era (1800s) Anthropologists, beginning with boas, have rejected the theory of hierarchy of cultures, viewing it as contributing to racial prejudice, and rejected the idea that one culture or people are psychologically better or more advanced than another. Armchair scholars- 1st anthropologists, europe, collect information coming in from the empire. Missionaries would send back reports from their cities, government/colonial administrators would send reports.
