Foundations and debates in anthropology

Ғылым және технология

In this lecture on foundations and debates in anthropology, Dr. Paige West presents the history of anthropological ideas and investigations. She first defines epistemology as a framework for what we know and how we produce knowledge. She highlights how European exploration of the world as the start of systematic inquiry about other societies and cultures, and she notes that ideas about cultural evolution and the progression of social systems reflected Enlightenment ideas. She then focuses on the material and intellectual impacts of colonialism and imperialism, which were oriented toward bringing resources and knowledge from the world to the metropole, or the colonial capital. Critique of these approaches to understanding cultures led to the ethnographic turn in anthropology, which studies cultures in their own context. She ends with critiques of the concept of culture and cultural evolution to highlight the epistemological difference between colonial and anticolonial anthropology.
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  • @mikechilds7373
    @mikechilds73736 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful context for anthropology Dr. West. I really enjoy the writing of Hugh Brody on Peoples of the north and now I can see him in this wave who left the university's to work for the communities he studied. Thanks!

  • @madelineharoldsen9899
    @madelineharoldsen98994 жыл бұрын

    Loved this. A lot for me to digest so i'm saving this video to watch again later! Is this at a conference??

  • @annawilma5871
    @annawilma58714 жыл бұрын

    Impressive lecture, thank you for sharing!

  • @weareallbornmad410

    @weareallbornmad410

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KP-ik2wf All societies DIDN'T evolve through the same sequence. That's just how random Europeans thought of it a while back, conveniently justifying French/British imperialism while they're at it. This lecture is trying to show you why and how that happened, and also that this is not how you should be thinking about the world. Best, an anthropologist.

  • @alexandrialgardner
    @alexandrialgardner7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much--great summary.

  • @richardelliott2768
    @richardelliott27685 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant, thank you.

  • @abdul-manafyunus7764
    @abdul-manafyunus77642 жыл бұрын

    J J R was both French and Swiss due to his heavy contribution to French Revolution. The speaker could be right in ascribing him to France.He was born in Geneva (Switzerland) but wrote in French and traveled throughout Europe but mainly worked in France. He is also buried in Paris, brilliant presentation by Dr Paige

  • @UNAICO-ngoTV
    @UNAICO-ngoTV3 жыл бұрын

    Great!

  • @beyoutiful257
    @beyoutiful2572 жыл бұрын

    Please don’t let these negative, unhappy fools get you down!!! Live and Love the life you created! Thank you, I really enjoy your content and I’m a recent subscriber.

  • @chanhleo8399
    @chanhleo83995 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dr. Paige for the great lecture. Just one more correction, Rousseau is Swiss.

  • @abdul-manafyunus7764

    @abdul-manafyunus7764

    2 жыл бұрын

    J J R was both French and Swiss due to his heavy contribution to French Revolution. The speaker could be right in ascribing him to France.He was born in Geneva (Switzerland) but wrote in French and traveled throughout Europe but mainly worked in France. He is also buried in Paris.

  • @invisi6l339
    @invisi6l3393 жыл бұрын

    so... r we gonna ignore the lady who was eating in front of the camera lmao, i got distracted by her

  • @daniel3231995
    @daniel32319952 жыл бұрын

    WTF is mohawk interruptus - type of coitus?

  • @veryshuai
    @veryshuai2 ай бұрын

    What questions do anthropologists try to answer? What methods do they use? This talk didn't answer those questions for me.

  • @punjabiprincess908
    @punjabiprincess9084 жыл бұрын

    How does the privlaged woman in the into lookkke Gretta in 45 years

  • @elizabethstadler2775
    @elizabethstadler27752 жыл бұрын

    Brain health is the futuro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @helengrives1546
    @helengrives1546 Жыл бұрын

    Why would you want to move to the complex? It begs the question if our lives are more complex; or that we are surrounded by complex narratives. Let's take motherhood. It isn't that complex; unless you notice the encroaching opinions, state, policies etc on personal lives. Maybe that is just the fact that we poor so many people in cities?

  • @lunaridge4510
    @lunaridge45104 жыл бұрын

    As always with these KZread lectures--there is absolutely no effort to pronounce referenced names or their publications clearly and maybe even spell them out. Why?

  • @weareallbornmad410

    @weareallbornmad410

    4 жыл бұрын

    As far as I remember: Talal Assad, Edward Said, Michele Foucault, (Edward?) Taylor, Morgan (don't remember the name, but it's mentioned in Engels' paper on family, you'll find it), and Marx and Engels. You're welcome :)

  • @weareallbornmad410

    @weareallbornmad410

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KP-ik2wf Social evolutionism is a false theory, it didn't actually happen and modern anthropologists know that. This lecture doesn't argue that it did happen either. As mentioned at the very beginning, that is one of the ideas people still have today, that "drive us [anthropologists] crazy." Best regards, a Modern Anthropologist.

  • @C.D.J.Burton
    @C.D.J.Burton Жыл бұрын

    Oh yes, the true intellectuals. The one-sentence-is all-I-have-to-offer kinds of intellectuals I've come to know so well. Here to effortlessly corroborate another one-sided interpretation in a field they know nothing about. Now I agree with the major points, but what I don't agree with is how you make no attempt to remind listeners that the West were not the only ones indulging in slavery throughout history, and not just that, (but in keeping with your own logic) why should the acts of a few (or few hundred million) who happen to identify themselves the same as I do (i.e. Western) be taken as the architype of Western people? Isn't this exactly the same thing you're trying to put an end to - the classification of all individuals based on a collective identity associated with the acts of (less than all) individuals? All branded as an objective pursuit of your own, and an extension of the enlightenment whether you want to see it that way or not. And then to pick up on natural law, that is exactly at the core of justifications to post-enlightenment ideas too! A summary of modernity say we're all innately selfish, whereas opposing arguments would say we're naturally altruistic. Modernists could meet in the middle, and agree people are neither entirely selfish nor altruistic... could you? 9:00 Says someone with a mandate to bring child-like people in to the modern world hehe, you really don't write it do ya! I'm not saying that it was all roses 300 years ago, but what I will say is that the primary attempt of post-modern thinkers in the last century is to replace traditional markers of success or truth with superficial, artificial or just plain out backwards markers. So it's not just about repositioning intellectuals within society, it's actually not even about that at all despite being championed as such. Rather it's about maintaining the power traditionally associated with intellectualism and changing the protocol required to attain such titles, just as the word art has encompassed more meaning in the last century. Taking it away from being thought of as having a particular skill, to now represent people who want to poo on a canvas too.

  • @edwardspence-fo8vt
    @edwardspence-fo8vt9 ай бұрын

    Doctor Mengele had a degree in anthropology

  • @geraldspottedbear4005
    @geraldspottedbear40054 жыл бұрын

    Anthropology is the foundation of social control

  • @GoA7250

    @GoA7250

    4 жыл бұрын

    How do you mean?

  • @yinka377

    @yinka377

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi, could you kindly elaborate- I’m trying to make this point in an essay but I keep confusing myself.

  • @GoA7250

    @GoA7250

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@yinka377 I think it means those that control the narrative can change how we view the past and in so doing control the future.

  • @weareallbornmad410

    @weareallbornmad410

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GoA7250 That's not anthropology; that's historiography and journalism.

  • @wilburmcbride8096

    @wilburmcbride8096

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GoA7250 That's the book 1984 that quoted that. I totally believe this to be true and they will eventually rewrite the history books that say differently. People are too busy living their lives to understand this.

  • @intlprofs
    @intlprofs7 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like anthropology as recounted here is a mes and also not a science

  • @squatch545

    @squatch545

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like you're an indoctrinated shitlord.

  • @bobbytelevision

    @bobbytelevision

    5 жыл бұрын

    LOL, what a great statement! Thank you, @RonKrate

  • @leafm1181

    @leafm1181

    5 жыл бұрын

    sounds like anthropology is a catalogue of wrong ideas and then they want to put a cherry on top

  • @GoA7250

    @GoA7250

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@squatch545 It opinion system based on modern understanding of the past.. Not even close to a science.

  • @squatch545

    @squatch545

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GoA7250 That's odd, since anthropology uses the real sciences of anatomy, physiology, genetics, population studies, radio carbon dating, archaeology, nutrition, linguistics, cartography, math, physics, and general scientific theory building.

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