ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Franz Boas, James George Frazer, Veranda
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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) Portray a given culture from the native"s point of view. It"s a story balances tell about themselves as a culture as balanises. Victorian anthropology (taylor and frazer): evolutionary, hierarchy of civilization . Young discipline for the last 130 years. Victorian anthropologists were interested by darwin-tyler and fraser. Tyler describe culture in a very victorian based life style. (in textbook). Some ppl had more evolved culture than others according to anthropologists at this time. They measured all culture against victorian culture. All cultures moved through these steps from magical thinking to religious thinking finally scientific rational thought. How did they come up with this: they would read things by other ppl and then created their comparisons.
