ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Social Evolution
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After an uncontaminated person who was never introduced to english preserve and salvage primitive and dying civilizations that were about to disappear. Idea about culture: as something that was pure, fixed, and whole. Yahi culture was a thing - language, myth, economy, kinship structure, people wanted to study these people as a pure isolated group. Traits and habits of original and uncontaminated indian americans, to fully comprehend some people seen as pre-historical - lived as isolated people and the west had history linked to evolution and social evolution. Ishi seen as an earlier form of mankind, and not contemporary (which he was) people implied that human cultures have evolved, if they could understand. Yahi, they can understand their own pre-literate history (false notion) Evolution is wrong to think about with regards to human culture. They treated native north americans as primitives to teach us something about our own history.
