ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Philosophes, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas

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Anthropology lecture 7: the city of five lakes. Became noticeably popular because of the article looking for zora by alice. Changed age by 10 years to go to school at howard university. then she got in as the first african american in columbia. there she meets boas. She does a lot of work in hoodoo. Writes the article as a story of her journey to find hurston. The telling: song, story, tale, lore, myth,narrative. People help preserve their culture through stories. To study a given group you do not only understand their language but how their stories (folklore etc) unfold. Story is a variation of other stories that have been told. Story versus other non-narrative genres? (e. g. lists, genealogies). And some of the versions were aware of the others. No matter what he was put through he survived. African- american folklore in the american south. As a specific response to slavery in america. Melville herskovits and the 1930s debate over african-american culture.

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