ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Baffin Island
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Key terms: applied anthro, diffusion, historical particularism, medical anthro, purposeful sampling, qualitative research, structural functionalism. Historical particularism closely related to franz boas + bosnian approach rejected the cultural evolutionary model that had dominated anthropology until boas. Society = a collective representation of its unique historical past. Structural functionalism: from british anthropology opposes evolutionism. Malinowski = father of fieldwork, but he didn"t see himself as a structural functionalist (he had a less functionalist approach) Functionalist approach is more sociologically oriented emphasizes on studies of social change. Structural functionalism was made by radcliffe brown. Most classic example of sf id from evans pritchard. Hardly paid attention to things like kinship and lineages, rather focused on meaning + symbolism- Two prominent schools of thought: british school led by a. r. Radcliffe-brown and bronislaw malinowski: american school franz boas. Influential in dismantling the racist ideology that was used by academics and politicians alike to restrict immigration and maintain racial segregation in america.
