Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Edward Tyson, Culture Shock, Marius Barbeau
23 Apr 2014
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Anthropology lecture #1 wednesday jan 8th 2014. Everybody interprets the world in their own way, every person"s reality is different. The history of anthropology generally a test question. Herodotus the greek 5th century bc: wrote the first to write a book, first to apply comparative perspective, he discussed marriage laws, and death. Montaigne 16th century: exploring the world and finding different kinds of people wanted to classify them, he developed typology putting people into groups where he thought they belonged. If they didn"t fit into typology they must be deviants. The enlightenment: as a result of his (^) work; enlightenment came into play use of rational thought to understand plants and animal, why can we not rationally explain human beings. Logical explanations: the beginning of the questioning of the bible, different stages of human progress around the world (western is more developed)
