ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Genome Diversity Project, Human Genetic Variation, Patrilineality
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In class, we are going to continue to speak bout kinship in regards to migration. Kinship is seemed to be central of the work of anthropologists. Progressive developmental paradigm-how over time, the studies of cultural or societies as they evolve over time. Migrational or diffusionary paradigm-the study of cultural and societies and they diffuse over space and time. Diffusion is the idea that a culture can spread maintaining or retaining cultural properties and adapting to a new environment. We have come to stop looking at society and seeing us in the past. For example by studying the kinship of a particular african tribe or society, we can understand how these people have family and we (euro-american or the west) have nation. The west is the point of the modern and by looking at the past, we can look at cultures that haven"t evolved, this viewpoint we have moved past from!
