AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rebecca Levene, Personal Boundaries, Egalitarianism
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C h a p t e r 2 | 1. The pre-scientific phase of anthropology and explanations of cultural diversity. The historical contexts in which anthropology arose: colonialism, capitalism, and modernity and their impacts-colonial political economy. Interest in cultures pre-dated the scientific phase in the early 20th century; writings were speculative, prejudicial, arm chair anthropologists . Edward b taylor: social facts can be observed: positivism auguste comte, comparison of society to a biological organism: parts, functions or parts st simone. Wrote historical relation of ceylon (sri lanka) in 1681. Sailor with dutch east indies company, imprisoned on ceylon for twenty years and eventually escaped and wrote book, still highly regarded. Racial determinism: classifications of racial types: race concept was used to explain differences and diversity. Differences meant deficient: polygenesis: different origins of humans. C h a p t e r 2 | 2: monogenesis: biblical story of creation; degeneration- fell from grace, evolution: stages of evolution, primitive vs. civilized.
