ANTH 100A Study Guide - Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Edward Burnett Tylor
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It"s a scientific study of humanity with a focus on patterns of human action and interaction. Fieldwork experience is central to the definition of anthropology as a discipline. The social anthropologist studies societies as wholes he studies their ecologies, their economics, their legal and political institutions, their family and kinship organizations, their religions, their technologies, their arts, etc. , as parts of general social systems. (asad 1975:11- Why should we turn to primitive cultures rather than our own civilization? . The second world war the attainment of political independence by colonial, especially. African countries in the late 50s and the early 60s accelerated the trend . planned development . African and asiatic dependencies of britain and her allies. Anthropologists as apologists of colonialism and subtle agents of colonial supremacy who studied african customs merely to provide the dominant white minority with information damaging to native interests but normally opaque to white investigation. (asad 1975:15).
