ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnography, Uniformitarianism, Edward Burnett Tylor

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Victorian anthropology and civilizations compared: the emergence of anthropology: the enlightenment and 19th cent. rationalism mid 17th through 18th century. Scientific revolution and scientific method- heliocentric model of the universe. William harvey explains the circulation of love- the heart is the engine . Age of scientific empiricism- knowledge derived from sensory experience, hypothesis tested and retested, stress reliability. Pushed political and social theory: darwin and the origin of species. Charles darwin (1809-1882) the origin of species: by means of natural selection. Trying to tease out the fundamental issue of variation. Published in 1859, provided a model for thinking about diversity and change over time in the social sciences. Darwin was very cautious in putting forward ideas because they were revolutionary and because he needed to build a strong argument and consensus among his community of scholars. People say he finally published because a younger anthropologist wrote and said he found something similar. Argument based on fundamental elements of empiricism.

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