AN101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Evolutionism, Difficult People, Ethnocentrism
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Invented participant observation and that area of field work. Classical ethnography argonauts of the western pacific (1922) Records audio material such as interview, myths, and songs. Anthropology was invented in the nineteenth century as a science. Worked with materials collected by others (missionaries, traders, explorers, or colonial officials) second hand accounts, totally biased accounts. These accounts were all sensationalist accounts that were based on the little pieces of their lives; out of context. A theory that stipulates that all human groups follow the same stages of cultural evolution. All human groups are aligned in a single evolution line from the most primitive to most civilized. At the beginning of the 20th century the methodology of fieldwork allowed anthropologists, such as malinowski, to criticize evolutionist theories. The way of doing fieldwork changed through time. From a positivistic approach to a reflexive approach. It is important to contextualize the anthropologists and their historical and cultural context.
