ANTHROP 3PD3- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 13 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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Is a direct outgrowth and legacy of the enlightenment and a colonial period referred to as. Modernity = period from 1700"s-1950"s in the west that represented a time of enormous change modernity in technologies, communications and in how people think. Growth of colonialism occurred during this period as well. Transportation - railways - cars - airplanes. Communications - snail mail - phone - satellites. Increasing sanitation/health problems - e. g. infectious disease. Ultimately, these changes created a sense of . E. b. tylor (1832-1917) - father of anthropology (british) He thought about the idea of doing fieldwork, but he thought it was ungentlemanly - he wanted. Very much interested in drawing up charts, listing what societies believed in witchcraft and which to just sit in his armchair and read about different societies throughout the world didn"t. Franz boas (1858-1940) - father of anthropology (american) He and armies of students he accumulated, would go out and study different indigenous cultures.
