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Main Points
founding theory of cultural anth.
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- The study of culture across time and space; peoples lives are still unfolding, so there aren’t necessarily discreet answers
Culture: traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that govern the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them; something that we share, something that is adapted; enabling and constraining; challenging
Cult Anthropologists teach, research, and write about it
Ethnology: examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares data gathered in different societies… looking at how different societies respond to different challenges; not necessarily looking for universals, common ground, but looking at diversity
Theory: an explanatory framework that helps us understand why something exists; what we use to explain, not necessarily provable; open ended; looking at patterns, answers, relationships; don’t use control groups
Ethnography: account of a particular community, society, or culture
Cultural Evolution: cultures evolve over time; different cultures excisting in different places; all humans have a place on line, have a capacity to be on same level as Western civ. Others are primitive, not yet at the level of western civ. Line goes towards becoming christian
Tylor, Morgan
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Armchair anthro: reading books from missionaries, colonial officials, travelers, traders
Critiques: discriminatory/unequal, makes presumptions abt where cultures are supposed to go, assigning ranks and values to them.
Ethnocentric- priviledged the west as superior
Ahistorical
Armchair anthropology
Based on very broad/general comparison, not getting to detail of cultural existence
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