ANTH 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Franz Boas, Edward Burnett Tylor, Participant Observation
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Questions: kroeber on the principle of and radin pdf: compare and contrast kroeber"s superorganic or super-individual understanding of culture with the approach his mentor, franz boas, advocated. It would seem that despite kroeber"s being mentored by boas in the end they each have very different conceptions of culture. Shreds and patches" model in which many elements of cultures are shared between different groups each taking, adapting, and assimilating traits in a loose mish-mash that is then prone to idiosyncratic variation. All of the previous in boas" model is constrained by biophysical traits (though he did not name them as such) and cultural selection. In contrast kroeber"s concept of the superorganic is much more in keeping with the works of progressive evolutionists, especially. Tylor and his concept of culture vs culture, in that there is a larger force which is culture" acting on human groups and is expressed in measurable ways, such as his study of fashions over time.
