ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Ethnological Society, Lewis H. Morgan, Eric Wolf
Document Summary
European social anthropology and american cultural anthropology developed separately but blended since 1950s: started off as 2 separate schools of thoughts. British social anthropology focused on society-organized life in groups- and the concept of sociality-the propensity to associate with others and form social groups. Concerned with exploring the relationships among social roles (ex: husband and wife, or parent and child) and social institutions (ex: religion, economy, politics) American cultural anthropology focused more on the concept of culture- ways ppl expressed their view of themselves and their world, especially in symbolic forms (such as art and myths) Two approaches often converged (kinship, for example functions both as symbolic system and as social institution), and complemented one another. Modern cultural anthropology has its origins in, and developed in reaction to, 19th century ethnology , which involves the organized comparison of human societies.
