ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lewis H. Morgan, Edward Burnett Tylor, Clifford Geertz

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 010
• Professor: gaddis

Document Summary

Culture is the principle on which anthropology was founded, integral in the entire. We must understand our past in order to better understand our present. A lot of the ethnocentric ideas that past anthropologists had are still circulating. Like the rankings of humans around the world. Culture is a theoretical framework; it is the lens that we use to approach difference. Tylor sets template for the science as culture. He and others grouped humans together as one group of humans. Unilineal cultural evolution: the idea that different cultures and society progress from stages. The progress is very ethnocentric and is based on europeans and industrialization. Cultures that aren"t like the western world are inferior and will eventually get to where we are. Deeply flawed approach because it is extremely ethnocentric. Working to see how evolution works culturally, not biologically. Most inferior evolution is savage then barbaric, then civilized.