ANTH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Franz Boas, James George Frazer
2 Jul 2019
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James frazer, edward burnett tylor, and louis henry. Focused on native north americans and immigrants. Salvage ethnography: recording practices and folklore of cultures threatened with extinction. All cultures are considered equal to one another and can only be judged by their own merits. Bronislaw malinowski (1884 1942): the father of fieldwork worked on the trobriand islands. Participant-observation: "the final goal is to grasp the native"s point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world . Believed they could split cultures into groups such as the. Margaret mead showed to the public how important anthropology is. Outspoken women"s activist after her trip to samoa. Thick description by geertz which looks into the underlying meaning behind things. Network analyses which find patterns in who a person interacts with. Mapping of the built environment, which is the environment that human beings construct around them. Preparation and strategies of research are important.
