ANTHROP 2200H Study Guide - Final Guide: Heredity, Endogamy, Clifford Geertz

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2200H
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Harris: sociobiology: scientific approach, humans are subjected to similar evolutionary forces as other animals, natural selection; e. o. Wilson: interpretive anthropology: humanistic approach, analyzes cultural elements by their meaning to people and understanding them in their local context, no generalizations are possible; Clifford geertz: postmodernism: humanistic approach, emphasizes the relativity of all knowledge, including science, think all observations are subjective, ethnographies are inherently biased; michel. Foucault: unilineal evolutionism: all human ways of life pass through a similar sequence of stages in their development; e. b. Tylor: cultural ecology: culture functioned as an adaptation to one"s environment; julian steward. Know the definition of culture and the different features of cultures (shared, learned, etc. Consists of shared, socially learned, knowledge, and patterns of behavior. Definition: study of past and present biological and cultural variation within the human species. Describe and explain human variation (biologically and culturally) Make generalizations that are valid across time and space. How aspects of culture function as a whole.