ANTH 1010H Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Archaeological Culture, Scientific Method, Structural Functionalism
3 Sep 2013
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Analogy is a process of reasoning that assumes that if objects have some similar attributes, then they will share other similarities as well. It involves using a known, identifiable phenomenon to identify unknown ones of broadly similar type. It implies that a particular relationship exists between 2 or more phenomena because the same relationship may be observed in a similar situation. Functionalist ethnographies integrate various aspects of culture with one another and with the culture as a whole to its environment, We want to gain confidence in selecting one analogy over the other, we must state explicitly the implications each would have for the archaeological data and then examine the latter again in the light of each implication. The basic objective in using hypotheses and deductions the scientific method, if you will is not to formulate laws but to explore the relationship between past and present. This relationship is assumed to have two parts.
