AN101 Lecture Notes - Edward Burnett Tylor, Persian Letters, Nationstates
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In hawaii, then, there was a new year"s ritual, around november to january (the time that. ; this is why the women sleep with. Themes: seeing tensions at the beginning of anthropology in europe, ask about relationship between subject and observer. Is no universal logic or reason; we apprehend and interpret events through creative use of local categories and practices: even local people have a variety of perspectives based on social position, interest, and even personality. Inventing man : beginning/middle of 15th century, people justify killing others in wars, etc. by claiming that they are not really people . They commit inhuman acts, like: if these people do not convert, they must be overpowered and forced to convert to cannibalism. Hegemony: about power and domination; suppressing forces that we do not realize are dominating us; things that we take for granted, and do not question any more (e. g. : the simple duality of gender)
