ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Learning, Primitive Communism, Barter
Document Summary
Malinowski- how he did it and diary; video- only guy in family that wants to think about this guy; fieldwork is what happened after malinowski tried to do figure out what he was doing. Frazer- talked about perspective different from sociology and institutions of exchange. Compares art and science- curious way of being both scientific and telling stories. Gives the world the good and the bad. It"s impossible to escape racism of the time period. Noblesse oblige- when you have a lot of resources and you are nice. Exchange: importance of economic forces at all stages of civilization. How we build worlds off of a material fountain. Anthropology vs sociology: sociology should confine itself to the description of acts and should leave the problems of motives and feelings to psychology. Magic and relgion: 1- can"t live with anybody but natives 2- must apply certain scienfitic methods 3- authority is magic. Salvage anthropology: collection of human artifacts and remains.
