Morgan And Tylor's Theory Of Power Comparison

Morgan and Tylor use the concept of difference to explain and study the human kind. They viewed the humans as one group, but at different stage of evolution. To understand the human evolution they determine stages and established a list of criteria to structure their analysis of a group, like in science when a chemist use a list of characteristics to describe a chemical reaction.
The list of criteria studies the culture, the kinship relation, the technology and it allows to the anthropologist to study a group by comparing it to another. Even if in the end all human should end up similar, at the same stage of evolution, it is the differences between the group studied and the modal one, a “civilized” one, that allows to study humans and their evolution. …show more content…
In order to study the similarities and the differences between two groups, the searcher has to involve himself and compare his culture, his political organization, his means of subsistence with the ones of the other group. An issue with the power may come from the fact that the searchers are from the “civilized” society, which that is considerate as the higher stage and it is used as base line for the comparison. That situation brings the issue of biased analysis if the searcher does not distinguish his higher evolutionary stage from the power that is associated with