ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Qualitative Property, Informed Consent, Thick Description
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British ethnologist: sir edward burnett tylor: culture, not race, determined differences, culture vs. cultures, psychic unity of mankind. American ethnologist: lewis henry morgan: 3 stages of cultural development, savagery, barbarism, civilization, stages defined by technology. Judging beliefs and practices of other cultures based on our own cultural beliefs and practices. Tendency to believe that our culture is natural / correct / superior to others . 1920s-40s: anti-colonial independence movements: respect for cultural differences. Bronislav malinowski: advanced fieldwork native"s point of view through participant observation, trobriand islands kula ring, functionalist: how social institutions function to satisfy individual human needs (i. e. magic reduce anxiety) Radcliffe brown: structural functionalism: society organism, how institutions in societies worked to create balance in system to keep it functioning smoothly. Franz boas: modern american 4-field anthropology and historical particularism, respected unilinear cultural evolution, cultural development along unique paths and may not go through same stages of evolution.
