ANTB19H3 Chapter Notes -Kroger, Eugenius Warming, Cultural Translation
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Early anthropologists were after uncontaminated people or doesn"t know english or have been exposed to european culture or primitive civilization that were about to disapprear. The culture was something pure, fixed, language, myth, economy, kinship structure, and people wanted to study the people of yahi as a purely isolated group. In some ways this sets up a leally odd way of thinking about history. The people of the west had the history. What he was drawing attention to there was a time when european thought themselves of being capable of having a history and rapid change. In order to find that out they had to find who didn"t get a touch from the west to study uncontamited. Ishi belong to an earlier form of mankind. He"s contemporary and wise, and people use this kind of notion to biological sciences and think that all the human culture have a sort of evolution.
