ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Michel De Montaigne, Lewis H. Morgan, Hans Staden

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Victor Barac

Document Summary

First time to provide objective account for other people. The rise of the greek city takes. Athens (greek cities) people wanted to know about other cultures (intelligence), thirst for this knowledge, travelled throughout the. Mediterranean, described the culture of the barbarians, was impressed by other civilized peoples, interviewing people who fought in the persian wars, compiling info, his status has risen by historians, his info was somewhat detailed but also wacky, Moroccan bur, major figure in arab and islamic history, widely revered, Dehli, ambassador of sultan of delhi, went to china, went to tim buck two, Important because there is no supernatural references, just mundane everyday recordings, very objective, detailed descriptions, reflexive: how he felt, very candid, A gift to those who contemplate the wonders of cities and the marvels of. Travelling, or, the rihla of ibn battuta (1355) Ethnology as semiotics study of signs/ symbols. Not an ac of salvage but act of culture.