ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Misima Island, Social Anthropology, Louisiade Archipelago
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Literacy implies civilization; technological sophistication was a measure of a particular place of success in the western world. 1871 edward tylor, wrote a book called primitive religion. He believed that all objects have an essence, science was the ultimate inspiration, and poly-gods. Remember, religion asks why and science asks how. The primitive of white man was so high that there was no word to label racism. Boaz became the father of modern anthropology. He questioned and labelled what culture truly is; the de nite difference between it. Insisted his students to learn the way they perceive the world. This notion became known as cultural relativism. Any cultural form of practice can form in any place for any number of reasons. Boaz was into grand theories while another man looked into understanding in the existent of here and now. All cultural practices makes sense if you understood the context of their own world view; blanket of comfort to the people.
