150 Years of Anthropology: Tylor, Morgan and Miklouho-Maclay or Culture, Comparison and Field Research in 1871 Cover Image

150 let antropologie: Tylor, Morgan a Miklucho-Maklaj aneb kultura, komparace a terénní výzkum roku 1871
150 Years of Anthropology: Tylor, Morgan and Miklouho-Maclay or Culture, Comparison and Field Research in 1871

Author(s): Martin Soukup
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture, 19th Century
Published by: Kulturní studia
Keywords: evolution; fieldwork; Tylor; Morgan; Miklouho-Maclay;

Summary/Abstract: This paper follows up the year 1871; a milestone of hardening anthropology as scientific approach. Tylor has published Primitive Culture; Morgan was signed under the title Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, Miklouho-Maclay landed on New Guinea in the same year. There is no strict connection between these crucial events. From the historical viewpoint is possible to see (1) rising of focus on diachronic perspective to understand society and culture; (2) a studying of kinship as the key how to understand the both – culture and society; (3) a necessity to perform field research in a particular society and culture.

  • Issue Year: 17/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 3-16
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Czech