ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Laura Nader, Cultural Anthropology, Franz Boas
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An anthropological approach that retains the british focus on social anthropology at the same time as it adds the american focus on culture to produce something slightly different from either one. Look beyond the world of everyday experiences and discover patterns and meanings that lie behind the worl. Chair political anatomy of educational settings. Its part of he system of relations that give meaning to a classroom. A chair with a back to it is more school but a chair without is more open to conversation and movement: armchair anthropologist. Refers to an approach to the study of various societies that dominated anthropology in the late 1800s. It involved the collection, study, and analysis of the writings of missionaries, explorers, and colonists who had sustained contact with non- Armchair anthropologists used these documents to make comparisons and generalizations about the ways of life of various groups. (p. 9: culture.
