ANTH 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Comaroff, Cockfight, Lewis H. Morgan
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Early anthropology ( armchair anthropologists ): lewis henry morgan, edward taylor. Other travelers (where they get their info/writings from and analyze it) Societies classified on basis of technology, social institutions, from primitive to civilized. In order to understand a culture you need to learn about its particular )i. e. unique) history. He suggested that cultural values, norms, and symbols derived from the unique history of a group of people. Helped to explain differences between many native american cultures. Helped to achieve a measure of equality for european immigrants to the us. Examine how different structures within a society functioned. Focus on kinship structures, political structures, religious structures, etc. , how they maintain social order. Example: ee evans-pritchard"s ethnography the neur (1940: included their political, economic. Weaknesses: assume social order is the norm, not conflict. Today, many anthropologists focused on the conflicts within systems (influences by karl. Allows us to understand society as composed of different elements.
