ANTA02H3 Lecture 2: Week 2 - Anthropological Fieldwork.docx
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Anthropological fieldwork malinowski, boas and the decline of evolutionism. Long term participant observation stay with a certain people for a long period of time. A unique discipline that emerged only about a century ago. However this contact goes back centuries ago, in the age of exploration. They were send to the new world by european monarchs to look for spices, slaves, trade and politics in places like africa, north and south america. Formed political relations with them and because of these contacts thousands of people perished because of transferred diseases. People were different they identified them an deficiency, because they used western culture as the best and what everyone should follow (ethnocentric) When they started reading the history of western europe, they found that europe did not exist the same way like it was, and they were similar to people in africa and america before.
