ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Kula Ring, Evolutionism, Ethnography
28 Nov 2012
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Midterm questions will be from today"s readings on It is a serious concept and it comes out in the course of the culture. Ethnographic method-don"t have to strict of a definition. Culture- the total way of life of the people (tyler) Ethnology-comparative study of cultures one of the main ways of practicing anthropology at the time. Boas wrote-collecting many documents /reports and doing a comparative analysis and create a theoretical piece-not the method we use today. Boas is expecting ethnology to be done and he expects himself to do it. His students-mead-do not hope to be able to solve an intricate historical problem using a formula. The historical problem he is confronting is difference-a big philosophical problem for people whose societies were founded in enlightenment. One is finding the world in which none of the institutions or history is there-perfectibility of man. Assume that the people they found were not human(racism), and at an earlier stage of development.
