ANTH 1003 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Anthropology, Primitive Culture, Edward Burnett Tylor
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Define and match the anthropologist to the concept: margaret mead, coming of age in samoa, studied childhood learning, culture and personality. Stuck there during wwi long time for field work. A theoretical position in anthropology, common in the first half of the. 20th century, that focuses on finding general laws that identify different elements of society, show how they relate to each other, and demonstrate their role in maintaining social order: clifford geertz, interpretive anthropology. Compiled accounts from travelers, explorers, missionaries, colonial officials: evolutionary anthropology. Cultural evolution : savagery -> barbarianism -> civilization, franz boas, participant observation. Name, define and give examples of the four fields of anthropology. Concept of culture: core anthropological concept, beliefs, practices, values, culture/cultures, ethnocentrism (bad) basing all cultural experience off of one culture, cultural relativism (good) understanding one culture within its own terms. Integrated each part connects to every other part.
