ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lewis H. Morgan, Trobriand Islands, Ancient Society

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Victor Barac

Document Summary

Overview 1: origins: herodotus, ibn battuta, jean de l ry, lewis henry morgan, franz boas, bronislaw malinowski. Significant because it was the first time someone tried to provide an objective account of an occurance he made it secular every day/mundane. Obvserve how other people live/immerse yourself in another culture practice of cultural anthro. He provided an account of the non greek barbarians (greek slang bar- bar : to describe people who don"t speak a language you understand) surrounding greece and described other civilized people (north africa, india, etc) He relied on oral history interviewing people soldiers coming back from the military front persians defectors- traitors many believe. Herodotus himself was a traitor (a business man he needed to know their customs to communicate, etc) Founders of oral history yield mixed results reveal amazing truths. Historians do historiography overlapping with anthro now.