ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Evolution, Cultural Ecology, Red Meat
9 Oct 2020
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2- functionalism: bronislaw malinowski 1884-1942 (polish origin studied in england) did field work in papua new guinea during the world war and was not allowed to go back to. England: culture and especially social institutions are response to the psychological, social needs, anthropologists tried to categorize everything (connected to colonialism, malinowski wearing clothes they aren"t. He is so close to the local women (touching their breasts) as if the women are sexually available and the men are not going to defend them. It serves their needs for psychological security because they are likely to die so you will need reassurance: ex. In order to continue controlling these societies the british had to understand the local populations. This allows them to insult each other (ritualized disrespect). This means that biology did not matter: pms is an unknown phenomenon in many parts of the world even though they share a biology.
