SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Margaret Mead, Proxemics, Robert Lowie
31 Oct 2016
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Long history of living and working alongside aboriginal people. Early traders, missionaries, explorers write letters, diaries. Used trained observers and scientists to collect data (biologists, doctors, etc. ) In na, the situation was similar not must anthropological training but long history of living in close contact with aboriginal communities. Early tradition of native-produced ethnography: aboriginal methodist missionaries such as peter jones and george copway wrote cultural histories of their people, the ojibwa, in the early 1800s. Systematic fieldwork started earlier in us than in britain. 1879 bureau of ethnology in washington founded as branch of smithsonian institution: division designated to collect info on natives in the us. Bae funded for formidable amount of ethnographic fieldwork by a number of people. Frank cushing: went to live with zuni, participant observer, lived with zuni for 4 years in early 1880s, became bow priest, recalled because his defence of zuni land rights offended powerful politicians.
