ANTH 3770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Emic And Etic, Individualism
1 Feb 2017
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Often tried to apply the study of natural science to studying humans. Not treating the natives as human beings. Thought that the most primitive people were more like animals. Ok with males having multiple partners, but not females. Notion of purity govern their lives (women were not allowed to participate, they were spiritually. Praying ensures a big supply of milk. Thought that europeans could be just as confused as native when it came to kinship classification (ex. Women could have may sexual partners and husbands. The tribe saw their cousins as two distinct groups (one acceptable to marry, the other not) *differs from european way of life (ok to marry your cousin) Children are married at 2-3 years of age, it"s a process of various ceremonies. Arrow giving ceremony (pregnancy ritual): social recognition of the child"s father (not necessarily biological, *biology is not universally highly regarded) Adultery (although there was no word for it in toga) was not considered wrong.
