ANTH 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Franz Boas, Edward Burnett Tylor, Trans-Cultural Diffusion
5 May 2020
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Prefer to do many things at the same time and see no particular value in punctuality for its own sake. All cultures of the world share a number of common features (ie economic systems, systems of marriage and family, educational systems, social control systems, system of supernatural beliefs, systems of communications etc) Enormous in our flexibility to survive and thrive in a wide variety of natural environments (relies on evolution of culture vs biological evolution) Analogy used to compare the human body to the study of people; describing the various parts of the culture, show how they function, and explain how they are interconnected. A new combination of existing cultural features. Evolutionism the spreading of a thing, an idea, or a behavior pattern from one culture to another linked changes. A change in one part of the culture would be likely to bring about changes in other parts.
