Short notes
Fieldwork tradition in anthropology
Definition
• Objective, third-person, scientific tone.
Thinkers
- Radcliffe-Brown: Fieldwork in Andaman Islands; Structural-functionalism.
- L.H. Morgan (Iroquois, 1840s – though semi-field): British Field Tradition.
- Evans-Pritchard | Social Anthropology is part of Sociology; Ethnology classifies cultures
- Durkheim | Influenced Functional Anthropology
- S. C. Dube | Historical context in Indian Anthropology