ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lewis H. Morgan, Moral Relativism, Orthogenesis
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A theoretically informed description and explanation of a way of life. The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures. Malinowski made ethnographies more systematic and introduced participant observation. A person who uses a specific way of research. Relating to the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences. A hierarchical social evolutionary theory asserting that social change will always follow the same direction and pass through the same stages. Focused on material culture: savagery > barbarism > civilization. Everyone is going in a single direction and will pass certain checkpoints until they are civilized. Lack of concern for history, historical development, or tradition. Every people has its own history that has resulted in the great diversity of human cultures. Each culture develops out of history of local people"s imaginative response to local conditions.
