ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Social Evolution
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No cover page but ta name, tutorial #, professor name in header. Could be about cultural transformation, how the nuer measured time and how it is a cultural aspect. Ishi the last yahi and the birth of american anthropology. Kroeber wanted to study a native north american that was uncontaminated by the west. He had this idea of cultures as fixed, pure, and whole. In this view, history belongs to europeans, who set history in motion through power and conquest. The problematic ideas of social evolution still very strong (not to be confused with biological evolution). Native north americans were considered to be primitives who could teach us something about our prehistory. Once they had been conquered, clothed, etc, they were no longer of interest to the early anthropologists, no longer interesting for science. Salvage anthropology was an attempt to record and collect the languages and artifacts of cultures that might disappear.
