ANTH 1003 Lecture : September 11th Lecture
Document Summary
Early us anthropology: missionaries, edward burnett tylor, lewis henry morgan, compile accounts from travelers, explorers, missionaries, colonial officials, their accounts are not very reliable. Idea that culture evolved from lower forms to higher forms. Included account of people with tails, spoke no language. Functionalism culture in terms of functions. Trobrianders had a logic behind everything that they did. You could only get at those reasons by getting inside culture and thinking like a. In his field notes, he referred to the trobrianders using the n word, but this was the. Research tool based in fieldwork; process and product (written results) of research. Consultant: co-researcher, textbook uses the term informant. Influence of being overwhelmed in the field: often times, an anthropologist learns about the norms of a society by accidentally violating them personally. Ethnology: more closely associated with british anthropology, we attempt to find universals among cultures; or aspects of shared cultural practices, human relations area files.
