ANTH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Franz Boas, Cultural Relativism, Social Evolution
Document Summary
Textbook sources: cultural anthropolog y: global forces, lo cal lives. 3rd edition by jack david eller; orientalism by sai d. History of anthropology: encountering "the other" in the world: early explorations and colonial processes, asia and the middle east, colonial encounters, 19th century evolutionary theories, natural selection, cultural evolution/ "social darwinism, evolve through stages, comparative method. Industrialization: shift from farm to factory work, rural to urban lifestyle, culture change. Anthropological theories: theory=statement that suggests a relationship among phenomena, enable us to make abstract sets of principles based upon observed reality, often associated with key theorist. Historical particularism: franz boas (1858-1942, rigorous approach to ethnographic study (fieldwork, rejected theories of social evolution, each culture has its own unique history, cultural relativism. Functionalism: bronislaw malinowski (1884-1942, cultural institutions function to meet the basic physical and psychological needs of a people in a society.
