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Cultural Evolution

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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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