ANT 2410 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Lewis H. Morgan, Franz Boas, Linguistic Anthropology
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Cultural relativism- principle regarding the beliefs, values, and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself. Ethnocentrism- belief and feeling that one"s own culture is the best. Naive realism- belief that people everywhere see the world in the same way. Current definitions of culture? (knowledge vs. behavior) tacit vs. explicit culture. Mccurdy- the learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experience . Spradley- the acquired knowledge people use to interpret experience and generate behavior . Two main/central principles of modern ethnography or socio-cultural anthropology. Historical particularism- each society has its own unique historical development and must be understood by based on its own specific environmental and cultural context. Often stereotyping and misunderstanding in two directions. Often bureaucratically mediated and subject to larger economic forces. Na ve realism (because nice girls don"t talk to rastas at least be relatively familiar with the story) Early models of cultural evolutionism and armchair anthropology .
