ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erving Goffman, Existentialism, Internal Monologue

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Bernhard Leistle

Document Summary

This doesn"t mean that understanding another culture applying its own parameters is a meaningless, or even a bad thing. But it means that doing so, interpreting the other is always, at least implicitly, a way of understanding and transforming oneself. This means to regard anthropology as more and other than a science built after the model of the natural sciences. Some of the most important early anthropologists were introduced as founding fathers of the discipline. These lectures concentrated on traditional anthropology in the sense of the discipline as it is taught by professors and learned by students (that is passed on as a tradition , literally. What is passed on , from latin tradere, to pass on) It was said that these methods and practices are still relevant today and define modern (= traditional ) anthropology. But i have also pointed out that there are problems and contradictions inherent in these defining practices.