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Title: Anthro 4 Exam

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Created: 03/17/2008 13:33:47

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Frank Boas
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Founder of the first department of Anthropology

 

Rejected the idea that non-modern cultures were primitive

 

believed cultures were not based on race

 

organized anthropology into four subsets: physical, cultural, linguistic, and archaeological

 

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Napolean Chagnon
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Studied the Yanomami Native Americans

 

used photographs to identify ancestry

 

practiced participant observation 

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Emile Durkheim  
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French

 

 Developed the collective consciousness - actions are inflused by society

 

famous for studies on suicide

 

 

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Noam Chomsky
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Linguist

 

universal grammar - all languages share a cultural universal / structure 

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Bronislaw Malinowski  
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Credited for first using fieldwork

 

studied the prsent rather than the past

 

Needs Functionalism - humans share universal biological needs; customs develop to kill those needs. 

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Emic - Etic
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Inside - Outside
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Clifford Geertz
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Author of Deep Play: notes of the Balinese Cockfight
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Max Weber
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Human behavior is determined by our search for our meaning of life
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