ANTH 3690 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Edward Burnett Tylor, Free Trade, Marcel Mauss
4 Oct 2018
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Mankind commenced from savagery to civilization with accumulations of experimental knowledge. Increase in knowledge by struggling with obstacles through inventions and discoveries and domestic institutions. House architecture: form of family, plan of domestic life, savagery to civilization. Property: establish political society on basis of territory. Ethnical periods characterized by invesntions/discoveries and growth of ideas, government, family and property. People/nation/state (organized by territory and unknown in ancient society) Barbarous/savage ways still found in human family "well preserved" Experience of existing tribes provide information to illustrate timeline of civilization civilization. Middle: fish and fire to bow and arrow. Pottery -> simple arts not necessary for survival. "savages" created from lower form, not from civilized people "unlearning" Civilization -> knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and habits of man. World not prepared for study of human life. Humans not seen as part of natural world. Complexity and imperfection of evidence makes it difficult to study human life.
