ANT102H5 Lecture 8: Anthro Sept.16&18.docx
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1: 484 bc-425bc, the histories (440bc) fictional beings, 1st objective account of a peoples past, rise of the greeks. Soldiers, merchants, etc: links to interviews, some of his stories are believable, whereas others are not, there was a market for his work in athens and other greek cities, people wanted to know about other people. Ibn battuta: moroccan bur-bur, 1304-1369 or 1377, known for the book rihla (a gift to those who contemplate the wonders of. 1: constitutional lawyer, served as a senator in new york state senate, Worldwide: he sell financed his research, never taught anthropology. Bronislaw malinowski: first modern fieldworker, lived among the natives b. Intensive fieldwork on the trobriand islanders: first to emphasize the native"s point of view (emic perspective, he was one of the formulators of functionalist theory a. Idea that cultures are complex holes that if something is altered it affects something else. Independent of genotypic change: frees humans from genotypic change ii.
