ANTH 2160 Lecture : lec 2 jan16
17 Jan 2012
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Static slice of time (synchronic) vs focus on change through time (diachronic) Boas (kwakiutl) malinowki (trobriand islands, later with his students in africa) Boas and malinowk - critical to the changes and beginning of anthro. Boas, american, associated with historical particularism - tons of research is in canada, Evolution- simply means change through time, doesn"t have to mean change to something better. At the time, when he was practicing, all of the other anthropologists were essentially his students. Colonial change - dress, religion, daily life, culture, tax, food, medicine, forced into wage labour. Malinowski - says anthropology needs to figure out why and study colonialism, culture and social change y. Research isn"t objective, everyone has their own interests/ beliefs/ ways of interacting y two researchers can observe the same thing but have completely different outcomes and results, views of the same obsercations.
