APG 203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Learning, Universal Grammar, Historical Linguistics
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Social anthropology is cultural anthropology in great britain: urged anthropologists to focus on role that particular practices play in the life of societies today, evans-pritchard, prominent british social anthropologist, the nuer (1940) Leslie white: evolution of culture (1959, no doubt that cultures have evolved, but not all evolve at the same rate. Julian steward: theory of culture change (1955, multilinear evolution, energy, cultures advanced in proportion to the amount of energy harnessed per capita per year, multilinear evolution, steward- creatures have evolved along several different lines. Steward-technology and environment are the main causes of culture change; technology and environment make up the culture core: technology, environment. Infrastructure: all societies have infrastructure consisting of technology, economics and demography (the system of production and reproduction without which societies cannot survive, structure, structure grows out of infrastructure. Shared conscience between people= culture: durkheim is a common father of anthropology and sociology, symbolic anthropology, study of symbols in their social and cultural context.
