APY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Franz Boas, Marvin Harris, Ward Goodenough
20 Sep 2016
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Consummate field researcher - versed in linguistics, botany, zoology, music and dance. Suicide was a societal problem, not individual. Ruth benedict - poet, used metaphor of greek gods to categorize southwestern native americans. Kroeber - yurok, west coast, est. department of anthropology at university of california, berkeley. Did field work in new guinea and samoa. Found three groups of ppl in ng that were androgynous. Women were more aggressive, while men were neat and. Believed we needed more rights of passage in the transition into subtle adulthood. Reproduction, gender, and sexuality; demographics of caribbean. Beliefs concerned with supernatural beings, powers and forces (a. f. c. Beliefs that explain how the world came to be as it is. Beliefs that explain how natural processes work. Beliefs that assure people of future security. Beliefs that promote social order and unity. Practices within a specific religious context that have patterned sequence. They keep people in touch with their gods.
