AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Primatology, Kinesics, Human Evolution
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An100 lecture #2: provided the opportunity, support and rationale for anthropological research, worked as researchers, administrators, intelligence agents (spied on people), educators of colonialists administrators given the savage slot . They studied third world countries, people who were savages. Intellectual and other interests: curiosity/adventure, salvaging: preserve a culture before they change. Everything was breaking apart, anthropologists wanted to study them before they changed so they could preserve that piece of history: buffers between natives and rulers. To soften the blow between these changes: studying survivals: reconstructing the evolution of practices and institutions. Searching for pure cultures that haven"t changed yet. Eg, foragers as windows into the foraging past. Eg. marriages to the people who kidnapped the women, they ended up getting married to the people who abducted them. Explanations of diversity: pre-scientific phase explained as race. People were different because they looked different, not their culture.
