ANTHRO 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Marvin Harris, Thomas Kuhn, Processual Archaeology
6 Mar 2019
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Contributions of culture history: the beginnings in interest of general prehistory( deep history and non-classical culture, ordering data when in time (depth - superposition-stratigraphy-cultural. Lecture succession/evolution: ordering data in space (determining what culture lived where, an interest in how cultures and technology evolved (cultural evolutionism, the direct history approach (ethnographic approach, archaeology is housed in the field of anthropology in the us. What would be the next change in theory: during the 1940"s and 1950"s anthropology and other social sciences became social. Sciences pursuing the question of why people do what they do: while anthropology and archaeology had been historical and descriptive before the idea. The beginning of the new archaeology : a larger influence in cultural anthropology caused a major is archaeology. Sacred cow - marvin harris, required reading: cultural traits or behavior exists to satisfy basic needs .
