ARTH 377 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-10: John Wesley Powell, Franz Boas, Evolutionism
16 Apr 2016
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Structuralist tradition developed in france: art was seen within the context of exchange of goods and spiritual essences. Institutional changes: from museums & quasi-government institutions to newly established university departments. Evolutionist, world-scale, boasian-inspired approach gradually replaced by ahistorical & functionalist emphasis on the local. Late 19th century: north american anthropologists salvaging information in case the cultures get lost. 1879) directed by john wesley powell, who imposed. Use of labrets associated with low level of civilization. Franz boas, the critique of evolutionism, and the americanist tradition. Boas influenced by german intellectual tradition rather than anglo-american evolutionism. Difference could be understood by examining diffusion and local development. Culture, not race, was the primary force influencing behaviour. Herman karl haeberlin (boas"s student): aesthetics nor merely fanciful study of metaphysical postulates /study of individuals, but about cultural history and artistic principles characteristic of groups/epochs: relations rather than contents.
