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Biological\physical
Linguistic
Cultural
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| Favoring your culture over another and using it to judge other cultures |
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Study of people.
Cultural Comparrison |
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| Shared Patterns of meaning and learned behavior also patterns of expectation and responsibility. |
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the written account of a group of people.
Specific questions and "snapshots" of a society |
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Anthropos - Human
logia - study of |
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| Biological/physical field |
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| what it means to be human/animal |
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| study of use and structure of language |
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| studying the past via reamins |
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| study of culture and social interactions |
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Human evolution
forensic - identify remains
primatology - chimps pay for porn
Medical |
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Prehistoric - no written
Historic - with written
Ethno - using people to learn
garbology |
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| 2 types of Cultural anthro |
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EthnoGRAPHY - research
ethnology - cultural comparrison |
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| Applied Anthro: Comparative perspective |
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| Use a control group to compare |
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| Applied Anthro: Holistic Perspective |
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| Edward Tylor's definition of Culture |
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| knowledge, beliefs, morals, law, customs and habits are LEARNED as a member of society |
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Tylor
How do you learn culture |
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observation
experiences
symbolism |
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| Clifford Gertz's definition of culture |
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Ideas based on learning and symbols
Culture is a set of CONTROL MECHANISMS for behaviors.
Culture is your operating system |
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| govern biological drives (pooping story) |
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| Traditions must be understood in the context of that society |
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Essential behavioral characteristics of a society.
What everyone has Ex. controlled use of fire |
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| what you need to know to succeed in society |
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| Characteristics of culture |
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Shared - Norms
Learned - taboos
Adaptive - cultural core
Integrated - throughout
Symbols - public/private
Organizes world view |
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| The Enlightenment and how it affected Anthro |
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people started explaining things with science and not the supernatural
concept of progress
world is rational and understandable |
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| differences between groups based on race and heredity |
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| Morton's Crania Americana |
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brain size= intelligence
lied and said Americans were smartest (Asians) |
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| Survival of the fittest applied to humans |
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| every culture moves in a line of progress |
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| Great chain of being. Savages> Barbarians> civilization |
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Studied kinship, marriage and morality
(had terrible data) |
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FIELDWORK
Judge each culture in its own context |
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| cultures can get to the same point in different ways. |
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Participant observation
Inductive
study in detail, ask a bunch of questions
describe first, explain later |
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Inductive:collect data > theory
Deductive:Theory > testable hypothesis > collect data |
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Looks at function "What need is it fulfilling?"
Each culture has a set of WORKABLE SET of beliefs n such
Customs fulfill BASIC biological and physical needs
ORGANIZED SYSTEMS OF BEHAVIOR |
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Neo-evolution
Technological determinism
Energy * Technology =Complexity^2
Natural selection favors those who use the most free energy |
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cultural ecology
multilineal evolution
how culture reflects the environment |
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| many factors go into how a culture progresses |
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| materialist explain tangible things while idealist explain things with myth and study the mind |
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| The people speak for themselves, no anthropologist involved |
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