ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dual Inheritance Theory, Cognitive Anthropology, Evolutionary Ecology
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Binary oppositions: contrasts between one thing and another. Ethnoscience: an ethnographic approach, ethnographic data that is kept free from contamination by the observers own cultural biases. Believe that if we discover the rules that generate culture behavior, we can explain much of what people do and why they do it. Etic view: collecting data according to a predetermined set of anthropological categories. Emic view: understand a people"s world from their point of view. Cultural ecology: the analysis of the relationship between a culture and its environment. Julian steward was one of the first to advocate. He felt that there should be investigation and that it must be separated from biological ecology. Political economy: a school of thought that assumes that external forces explain the way a society changes and adapts. It is not the natural or social environment in general. The social and political impact of powerful state societies. How they developed a worldwide economy through colonialism.
