ANTA02H3 Lecture : anthroJan19thlecture.rtf
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Field work: sets anthropologists apart from other social scientists. Live for extended periods of time with who were are studying. Accomplishes: culture from the natives point of view - the reader will be able to see that culture from the natives point of view. Example: eyebrow raising: during her field work, she read the eyebrow raise wrong. Where she did her field work it was a way of agreeing to them, whereas to us it is a sexual connotation. Victorian anthropologists were strongly influenced by darwin. Tylor defined culture: (page 37) culture is that complex hole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, etc as a member of society. All cultures could be ranked, from least to most civilized. In terms of rationality, magical thinking - religious thinking - scientific rational thought (all cultures move through these steps) These people would read other peoples accounts by missionaries, explorers, etc. they read them and created their comparisons from what they read.
