ANTH 3320 Lecture Notes - Prague School, Structural Anthropology, Christian Symbolism

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 3320
• Professor: Arun Chaudhuri

Document Summary

He also had other ideas brewing at the time (which were present in these journals on the voyage), parts of these ideas were about the observations that he made about a group of peoples (indigenous). This idea has been rejected by modern scholars (ethnocentrism: placing your on culture or society has central and ideal). It is also assumed with this idea that evolution is progressive or becomes better or improves (for ex morally etc the more euro the society progressed to be the more improved). Unilieanl social was prevalent in the ways early theorists were thinking in the 19th century which was seen when these theorists tried to establish the origin of religion (which is a difficult task because it is subjective/problamatic) Tylor -19th ce has a book called primitive culture-his work became famous for his attempt to establish a theory on culture and it was influential and promoted the idea of unilineal.