ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Panic, Participant Observation
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Four year journey to papua new guinea. Pursuit of new science but his own power and prestige. He desired to be part of upper class and accepted into aristocracy. Believed that savages should be studied from afar. Australian aboriginal people who were at bottom of evolution, and then chiefly societies like tahitian and then part way up are state societies like chinese, and then further up were other european nations, and. He took a look at aboriginal family life and his research lead him to different conclusion. This research concluded that anthropology involved prejudice and lacked rigor. Yoba - sacred ceremony, sent ancestors to sacred after world. You cannot rely on what people say but on yourself, what you hear and see them do. He immersed himself into their culture to learn more. By learning language he became participant observer.
