SOSC 1140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Stanley Diamond, Anthropology Today, Work Unit
17 Nov 2018
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The search for the primitive. (kit #5) pg. 31-55. The critical term: primitive: not developed from anything else. Initial/primordial/basic state which we came from: this mode of cultural being is being destroyed by civilization. The search for the primitive is the attempt to define a primary human potential: in order to know where we are, we must learn where we have been. The lack of a sense of history, is the death of man: because we ignore primitive, we go through dissociation, modern anthropology is the search for man in history, undertaken by a society threatened with automatism (unconsciousness). We have lost our sense of consciousness and civilization has taken away from the deeper vision of men: anthropology is trying to connect the primitive and civilization. Back then had a very negative role: anthropology today is more focused on western societies.
