ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Benjamin Lee Whorf, Azawagh Arabs, Fictive Kinship
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Edward tylor, james frazer, bronislaw malinowski, franz boas. If you want to understand what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. Above all else, what anthropologists do is ethnography (vsi page 13) Ethnography (what anthropologists write) is, in turn, is based on fieldwork. Culture from the native"s point of view (geertz) Victorian anthropology (tylor and frazer): evolutionary, hierarchy of civilization . The switch to fieldwork meant first-hand knowledge; holistic knowledge; comparative, but not hierarchical, approach to culture. Working definition: shared patterns of learned behaviour (vsi page 35) Or: learned sets of ideas and behaviours that are acquired and shared by members of a society. The penetration of local communities by global culture does not dooms local cultural traditions to extinction. The cockfight is a story the balinese tell themselves about themselves. Cockfights don"t change status, but they tell a story about status and prestige. The bima and dou donggo of indonesia. Metaphors we live by (lakoff and johnson)
