AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Anthropology, Primatology, Sociocultural Anthropology
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An economic system dominated by a supply and demand market deigned to create capital and pro t. Provided the opportunity, support and rationale for anthropological research. Worked as researchers, administrators, intelligence agents, educators of colonialist administrators. In anthropology the studies were mostly tribal or political. Salvaging: preserve a culture/cultural traits before they became extinct. Studying survivals: reconstructing the evolution of practices and institutions (search of pure cultures) Explanations of diversity: pre-sc phase (19th c and earlier) Monogenesis biblical story of common creation but degeneration and fall from grace. With scienti c methods: objectivity, fact collection, (positivism); rationalism. Race was replaces by idea of culture to explain difference; explains diversity; different but equal. Not culture bound i. e refrain from using ones cultural lenses to study others. Based on ethnographic research: written product of eld of research, generalizations based on comparative material. 4)using fieldwork method, or study of communities on the ground using: Study humans in their social and cultural settings.
