ANTH 1006 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Year, Hunter-Gatherer, Anthropology
ANTH 1006
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
- Franz Boaz is the father of American anthropology!**
- Anthropological Thought
- Social Progression -> society is moving towards something better.
- If social progression exists why can't cultural progression happen?
Unilineal Evolution:
- Tyler is a British anthropologist
- Lewis Morgan is an American anthropologist
- Worked together to discover the culture:
○ Why are they different?
§ Savagery, barbarism, civilization,
□ Civilized chosen to help others
□ Hierarchy of humanity
○ One of them created a list of what it means to be a savage
○ They hunt and gather in small populations-> cultural system -> savages
○ ?????? Listen to lecture again
Diffusionism:
- Difusionism recognized that there were "hotspots" around the world
○ Egypt for example. Something must have happened there, so there may have
been a culture there.
○ Diffusion reaches surrounding groups at differing rates.
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Functionalism:
- Early anthropologists were trying to understand variation!
- Why are all these cultures look so different?
- There are certain core elements that Culture needs. (on ppt)
- Commodities came around - it was better to have your name on it.
○ They work together to allow people to survive and function in their society.
- Malinowski asked how a certain population bent to suit another culture.
- Air looms tell a story.
Historical Particularism:
- Science had been done
- Scientists decided that races were real. Measured their skulls and rank them based on
races.
- Franz boaz didn’t agree with this^
- What are the little particulars that make one culture different from another?
○ What in their history makes them a little different from another?
Structuralism:
- Levi was bringing in information from psychology.
- Renasance man
- He wanted to understand the idea of patterns.
○ Problem with this is that cultures may not even realize that the pattern is there!
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Document Summary
Franz boaz is the father of american anthropology! Social progression -> society is moving towards something better. One of them created a list of what it means to be a savage. They hunt and gather in small populations-> cultural system -> savages. Difusionism recognized that there were hotspots around the world. Something must have happened there, so there may have been a culture there. Diffusion reaches surrounding groups at differing rates. Early anthropologists were trying to understand variation! There are certain core elements that culture needs. (on ppt) Commodities came around - it was better to have your name on it. They work together to allow people to survive and function in their society. Malinowski asked how a certain population bent to suit another culture. Measured their skulls and rank them based on races. Levi was bringing in information from psychology. He wanted to understand the idea of patterns.
