19th_Century_Anthropologists

19th Century Anthropologists One of the most difficult concepts to understand in anthropological studies is the view of culture held by the 19th century evolutionary anthropologists. The model was broken up into two categories: Civilized and primitive. The 19th century popular view of the civilized was that of a moral force. The primitive cultures were “brute savages.” The previous century had a bit of a different view of these two cultures. In that period, the civilized were deemed as corrupt and the primitive were “noble savages.” The model went on to discuss the evolution of society. The linear evolution diagram shows how different things diverted from simple to complex. Some of these things were technology, social organization, and most importantly culture. This was one of the first times that culture was proven to evolve as well. One of the most important concepts that surfaced during this time was data collection which allowed things to be proven wrong and right. The studies of Lewis Henry Morgan identified some of the more scientific views of culture. He identified that the evolution of society had three different stages. Civilization was first, followed by Barbarism, and culture, view, studies, one, evolution, boas, anthropologists, things, society, primitive, important, different, cultural, civilized, century, two, time, study, societies, social, savages, savagery, relativism, proven, perspective, own, model, identified, group, first, evolutionary, everything, each, data, cultures