ANT 3541 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: David Buss, Greylag Goose, Konrad Lorenz
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Around the 1940s the case was made that there was a large variety of human characteristics. Margaret mead, benedict"s colleague also followed up with this. Just as so much had been expressed in the book patterns of culture. - in 1949 a book came out that was almost the anti patterns of culture the book title was social structure by. Can be called the moment anthropology became a science. There were statistical contingency tables in the book, statistical tests and calculations, this was jarring to the readers. There were no stories in the book, but tabulations of cultures and cultural characteristics. When murdock entered the picture, he didn"t study small samples of populations and make observations, he instead gathered the data and made calculations. The human relations area files - usually referred to the hraf. A new understanding of ourselves and our very nature came out of this. We found human making the same number of choices over and over.
