ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Trobriand Islands, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead
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1) evo/ bio and archeological: bones and stones. The age of imperialism (mid 19=20th ventury. The most important imperial powers were britain and france. Modern anthro developed from the west colonizing the rest. The west(north) became dominant all over the world. More than ever was known in the west about the non-west. Anthro was largely the discipline fr explaining the non-west. General, public/ early anthropologists understood the nonwest in terms of three differences: a) linguistic (language) (linguistic ant. , b) cultural (social cult. Anthro: c) physical/ racial (physical(bio) ant, d) material (culture anthro. They wanted to dig up the past. Curiosity of west of nonwest grew until mid 20th: this is how most western nations understood themselves. West bio (race), material culture (tech), language and culture were considered to be most advanced. Including scientists (mmostly not modern anthro, but philosophers, philologers nd amateur archae) Seeing everything from the perspective of own people ( ethnic group .