ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James George Frazer, Franz Boas, Edward Burnett Tylor
11 Mar 2018
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Edward tylor, james frazer, bronislaw malinowski, franz boas. How they deal with having an open mind. "if you want to understand what anthropology is, look at what they do. Above all else, what they do is ethnography" (monaghan and just 2000:13) Ethnography (what anthropologists write) is, in turn. Feeding desire and renegade dreams are ethnographies (not novels) Descriptive and analyses beyond how and figure out why specific cultures do specific things. Culture from "the native"s point of view" Mongwateau raise their eyebrows in sense of agreement. Victorian anthropology (tylor and frazer): evolutionary, hierarchy of "civilization" Took their own culture and measured it as normal and compared everyone to that (tylor) Theorized that all cultures came from magical thinking to religion thinking to scientific rational thought (frazer) Malinowski stayed on the verandah (front porch) and didn"t immerse with the culture. Never got his hands dirty, and observed more. First person to get off and start to actually do fieldwork.
