ANTH 2 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unilineal Evolution, Cultural Relativism, Historical Particularism
Document Summary
Holism- studying the whole of human life (and all aspects of anthropology) participant observation- living and working with people on a daily basis for often a year or more (research strategy) Ethnology- cross cultural comparison: taking lots of ethnographies and looking at them together. Chapter 2 culture a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people. Culture has meaning, is patterned, learned and shared, adaptive, always changing, difference and conflict, material, never individual enculturation the process of learning culture (learning culture through growing up in that culture) Criticized the large scale ideas anthropologists had adopted and believed they should study particular groups of people instead of big groups under a general theory. Diderot encyclopedic statistician who wanted to create general useful knowledge by pulling together information about different things from the field and putting it together in an encyclopedia.
