ANTH 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward Burnett Tylor, Enculturation, Utopia
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According to white culture exists serve the needs of man (white 252) echoing an idea: according to white, what is the purpose of culture and what is the role of the individual? proposed by functionalists like malinowski. To white the role of the individual is negligible, so negligible in fact that he wants to remove people altogether from his study of culture. To him because people are all biologically the same and because they are simply what culture acts upon (despite his assertion that culture exists to serve people) their role is just to receive the whims of culture. Like progressive evolutionists believe culture is in pursuit of utopia. Morgan and tylor are extremely strongly felt in white"s work, or at least his interpretation: discuss and identify the influence of both morgan and tylor in white"s work. (requires two separate paragraphs) of them is. In my opinion we see morgan more strongly than tylor.
