ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Franz Boas, History Of The Jews In Germany, Cultural Relativism
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Universal moral values; local moral values that are culturally defined. We all have relatedness - universal: feelings, social connections. Family sets boundary between itself and what is outside. Every in-group excludes others (not always ethically approved) Kinship, marriage, descent, residence, commensality (people eating together), friendship, foreign accents. Fundamental form of relatedness; others are modelled on kinship (i. e. good friends = sisterhood etc. ) Consanguineal: by descent, blood - actually or imagined to be of common descent. Kinship group = not an imagined community (where people don"t know each other personally); people do know each other personally in principle. Model for imagined communities (like to imagine themselves on the pattern of kinship) Ideal for imagined communities: brotherhood - common imagined identity/community. Brotherhood potentially excludes others (not really equal) - french revolution example. Franz boas: father of american anthropology: 1858 - 1942 - cultural, linguistics, archaeology anthropology - wanted to give total picture of the group he studied.
