AN201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Challenge For Change, Ethnoecology, Folk Religion
Document Summary
General term indies blanketed over his destination. Europeans called these people the indians: looked at as noble people. Each place gave personal names: atik. Inuktitut name/being, it was given to you: saunik. Their life is carried out as that person or thing. Europeans thought that north americans were a crude, primitive culture and language. Europeans told stories of their origins: legends, oral history, myths. Europeans considered north americans people without history since they has no written down laws or religious beliefs etc. North americans had a primitive idea about borders of their land. French wanted to accept religious faith, marry the same people, become as one. Then, emerged people of both indian and european background. European culture radically different, fundamental organization such as selling land and political/social leadership. Boas and the study of north american peoples. 1883-1884 studied inuit in baffin island: participant study. Rejected socio-cultural evolution of morgan, tyler and spencer.
