Anthropology 2222F/G Lecture Notes - Lewis H. Morgan, Ecotourism, Cultural Anthropology
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Chameleons are the second most sought after animals in madagascar. Culture is the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society: the way we act. Culture was not always the key concept it is today: its importance today is owed to the emergence of cultural anthropology as an academic discipline. The emergence of new ways of thinking about the world, about the place of people in it and how we might go about understanding it all this all changed. The scientific revolution placed emphasis on objective and empirical research. By the 20th century, the professionalization of different field of research and study emerge with things like universities for example. Lewis henry morgan: certain levels of progression in evolution, start out as savages progressing to barbarism and then finally to civilization.