ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cultural Relativism, Evolutionism, Marvin Harris
17 Jan 2017
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Explanation: general, abstract propositions(theories) and specific propositions (hypothesis) that represent how and why reality is constituted in the manner that it is constituted. Descriptive, historical, mediating, teleological, those that resort to general laws or principles. Based on historical factors that could reasonable lead to other events. Problem: dependant on the necessity of some prior cause that may or may not have occurred in any non-random sequence. Explanation attempted by demonstrating a connection between things or events thought to be separate in some regard. This is the basis of most functional time) theories (rely on things connected between space and. Reasoning proceeds from a cause to an effect whereas historical explanations rely on an effect resulting from a cause. For example: a man is slaughtering a goat with the object of providing a feast. Bears similarity to items that are also in that category. Need to gather data need to sort out what is relevant.
