ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Original Affluent Society, Ethnography, Andamanese People
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Attended oxford on a working scholarship, which caused him embarrassment. Desperate to fit in with the upper class students, but was always rejected by the. His name was originally alfred brown but he changed his name to fit in. Conducted research in the andaman islands (indian ocean: natives didn"t like outsiders. Radcliffe published a book in 1921 the andaman islanders: he promoted his own theoretical perspective known as. Radcliffe-brown viewed society having a great deal of power over individuals; an individual"s life wad dictated by society. Problems with structural functionalism: does not explain how societies change. 1922: he wrote about the argonauts of the western pacific, . The book is about the trobian islanders on new guinea in the south pacific. His perspective was known as functionalism (remember, no hypen: functionalism: the function of society is to meet the needs of the individuals. Anthropologists today, use both maliowski"s and radcliffe-brown"s perspectives on society.
