TV documentary analysis

TV documentary: Franz Boas: The Shackles of Tradition (Strangers Abroad, episode 2,

Central Television, UK, 1985. Duration: 53 minutes). Available at:
https://youtu.be/GOvFDioPrMM

  1. What was Franz Boas’s anthropological approach, and how did it differ from that of evolutionary anthropologists?

Primarily:
o Kenny and Smillie (2017) Chapter 2.

o Class discussions and PowerPoint slides for Lessons 2 and 3.

o Boas, Franz (1920). The methods of ethnology.

Additionally:
o Radio documentary (recommended): From Savage to Self (Farrah Jarral, BBC Radio 4.

Omnibus edition, Part 1, first broadcast: 11th March 2017. Duration: 57 minutes). Mp3 on

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