ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Franz Boas, James George Frazer, Ethnocentrism
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Usually said during first and last few paragraphs. Key terms: fieldwork and ethnography, fieldwork as rite of passage, armchair anthropology, participant observation, edward tyler, james frazer, bronislaw malinowski, franz boas, ethnocentricism and cultural relativism, culture. Overarching goal of course is to teach you to think like an anthropologist. Ethnography (what anthropoligsits write) is based on field work (feeding desire and renegade dreams) Culture from the natives point of view, thick description, and context for knowledge about culture. Clifford geerts (stuff at the end of chapter 1 of the textbook): if you want people to understand so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g the(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)"t see(cid:374), (cid:455)ou (cid:374)eed (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) la(cid:455)e(cid:396)s of des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374) A very brief history of anthropology: philosophers and va(cid:396)ious e(cid:454)plo(cid:396)e(cid:396)s as (cid:862)p(cid:396)otoa(cid:374)th(cid:396)opologists(cid:863) Herodist: a greek philosopher writing about the cultural practices of the romans. Victorian anthropology(tyler and frazer): evolutionary, hierarchy of civilization (comparative second hadna ccounts) Grew into anthro as we know it today.
