ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lewis H. Morgan, American Ethnological Society, Social Anthropology
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Example: canada- collective well being- pubic healthcare. Smaller groups which can find in countries. European social anthropology and american cultural anthropology were separate then blended in 1950s: social- cultural anthropology. British social anthropology focused on the concept of society as the main idea and society is a concept refers to organized life and groups and how humans organize their lives to this. American cultural anthropology focused more on culture then society, and this concept of culture focused more on symbolism and the symbolic aspects of life; art, clothing. Two approaches often converged and complemented one another. Modern cultural anthropology developed in reaction to ethnology; taking information from other cultures and compares and contrasts the beliefs of different cultures. Early colonial ethnologists worked mostly with materials collected by others: arm chair anthropologists. Modern anthropology is characterized by the practice of ethnography. 1870-1920: enlightenment: evolutionism and ethnocentrism: science and rationality were huge.
