ANTH 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Culturology, Dawes Act, Pejorative
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Galton"s dilemma: francis galton, asking whether examples of ccr developed independently from one another. Nature vs. culture" aka nature vs. nurture" first asked by the greeks, naturally keeps coming up. Anthropologists tend towards culture, especially boasians, (i think it"s probably a mix of both) Behavior in adolescence is an excellent example of this question. Margaret mead"s coming of age in samoa. Biology gives you the capacity to interpret, express, learn, and share culture, but does not determine what that culture is. Often attributed to boas but really more of his students, kroeber and. Essentially a theory is an explanation for a question, need it to explain. Necessary at least for the dissemination of an idea. Modernism: application of science in an attempt to create explanations (empirical) Postmodernism, the reaction to this which is that there are not legitimate scientific explanations as science is a human process in and of itself, lack of bias is impossible.
