ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Bride Price, Edward Burnett Tylor, Middle French
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Overview of the 1st part of lecture: origins: herodotus, ibn battuta, jean de lery, lewis henry morgan, franz boas, bronislaw malinowski. Looking at the history and key concepts as well. The father of history, who was a greek writer. He wrote, the histories, published in 440 b. c: shows that people wanted to know about history. His inquiry was about the wars between the greeks and the persians. This is the first attempt in western history, of an objective narrative was attempted to talk about people" past: did not make reference to the different gods. His history was based on first hand accoutns: he actually travelled the known world (meditation world) He used oral history, where he copied down the accounts of soldiers, merchants, government officials. It was believed he was a merchant, which is how he was able to travel the world. This is how the greeks figured out there were other civilized people around the world.
