ANTHR 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ethnocentrism, Ethnography, Edward Burnett Tylor
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Armchair anthropologists (early fieldworkers) the armatures (did not go to college) White, elite, christian men with a distinct view of the world. Exception: louis henry morgan (conducted fieldwork among native. Conducted their anthropology from their own places but did not travel to. From people"s experiences that wrote about them missionaries. Reports written by colonial officials stationed there. Salvage ethnography fieldwork strategy to collect cultural, material. Linguistic, and biological information about native american populations being devastated by the westward expansion of european settlers. Cultural relativism understanding a group"s beliefs and practices within their own cultural context, without making judgements. To see each culture on its own merits; to understand it first from the inside, according to its own logic and structure. Rejection of ethnocentrism became a cornerstone of. Fieldwork of bronislaw malinowski the father of fieldwork . Participant observation key research strategy involving both participation in.
