ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lewis H. Morgan, Franz Boas, Historical Particularism
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19th century anthropologists worked on the topic of evolution. Franz boas founded us anthropology on different concepts: Anthropologist should study particular people, which exists at a particular moment. Lecture 5 (10/3/16) and admit that individual people have their particular story. Museum of national history, nyc (1895-1905)-lived 10 years. Created first us anthropologists department at columbia university (1899) Technologically less-complex societies were not at an earlier phase. Similar artifacts did not mean same evolutionary stages. Museum displays should show peoples and cultures. Studies of children of immigrant in nyc. Saw the children as smaller in size compare to the americans, but later on realized these immigrants do grow up to be the same size as the americans. Look at human through a lens of large numbers. Studied a family form england, trying to understand the noble status family. Coined the term eugenics, engineer people to become better, to help make the world a better place.
