ANTH 3690 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Environment, Franz Boas, Psychological Types
4 Oct 2018
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Franz Boas, Methods of Ethnology
Concept of migration and dissemination now important in ethnographic research
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If there are different types of civilization, a hypothesis of 1 line of evolution is null
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Cultural history=historical problem
How things are and how they came to be
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Every phenomenon as effect and cause
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Stability comes with rapid change
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More leisure, more change
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Not psychology-based
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Kroeber, Eighteen Professions
2 branches of ethnography
Biological and psychological
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Social and historical
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3rd branch is the relation of these two factors
Unexplored
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History does not study being, but their manifestations
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Civilization is its own entity
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History does not focus on individuals but interrelations of civilization
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Geography does not play a role in creating civilization
It incorporates geographical circumstances
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Historian must assume ALL human races are carriers of civilization
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Benedict, Psychological Types in Culture of the SW
Pueblo Indians
Life highly formalized/ritualized
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Different from other cultures
Difference in psychological types
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Without knowing psychological set you cannot understand cultural history
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2 Psychological Types
Dionysian
Annihilation of ordinary bounds and limits of existence
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Apollonian
Press beyond, reach, another psychological state and achieve excess
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Pueblos are Type 2
What is the explanation of cultural resistance?
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Pueblos do not use intoxicants
Not due to cultural isolation
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Focus on what other cultures have and what pueblos don’t •
Mead, Coming of Age
Dealing with adolescents spurred by psychological advancement and difficulties of youth •
Adolescents diverging from past norms •
Period in which idealism flowered, rebellion against authority strong•
Social environment "nurture" important •
Only method to study humans from another civilization •
Studied girls as she would have greater intimacy with them •
Q: are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to
the civilization
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Week 3 Readings
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
11:06 PM
Document Summary
Concept of migration and dissemination now important in ethnographic research. If there are different types of civilization, a hypothesis of 1 line of evolution is nul. How things are and how they came to be. 3rd branch is the relation of these two factors. History does not study being, but their manifestations. History does not focus on individuals but interrelations of civilization. Geography does not play a role in creating civilization. Historian must assume all human races are carriers of civilization. Benedict, psychological types in culture of the sw. Without knowing psychological set you cannot understand cultural history. Annihilation of ordinary bounds and limits of existence. Press beyond, reach, another psychological state and achieve excess. Pueblos are type 2 arch s null cess. Focus on what other cultures have and what pueblos don"t. Dealing with adolescents spurred by psychological advancement and difficulties o. Period in which idealism flowered, rebellion against authority strong. Only method to study humans from another civilization.
