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25 Cards in this Set
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2 similar modes of culture analysis adapted by boas' students
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sum of culture greater than parts, cultural relativism
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sum of culture greater than parts
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look at culture in patterns, not individual elements, gestalt schema
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gestalt schema
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use gestalts to characterize societies
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meaning of cultural relativism
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individuals must be interpreted in terms of their culture
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implication of cultural relativism
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things may have different or no meaning if taken out of cultural context
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2 students of boas' to contrast
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sapir and benedict
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to sapir, _____ shapes behavior. to benedict, _____ shapes behavior
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language, traditions
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sapir looks at ______ on macro level, while benedict considers it on a micro level
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patterning
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sapir looks at patterning on a ____ level, while benedict considers it on a ____ level
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macro, micro
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CCE theorist
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Tylor
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CCE
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culture originated independently more than once because of universal mind, then evolves from savagery to civilization
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how do CCEs understand primitives?
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at an earlier stage of evolution
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functionalist theorist
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malownowski
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malownowski's theory of needs
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for every need, there is a cultural response
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semiotic theorist
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Linger
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Semiotic theory
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symbols understood through culture
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3 language theorists
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sapir, boas, geertz
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sapir and language
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language shapes culture/behavior and how people understand world
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boas and language
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language is very subjective, use historical evidence of language to understand universal nature of culture
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geertz and language
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language is one of only windows into emic point of view
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3 ways ANPs defined culture
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sapir- culture is language
benedict- culture is patterns mead- culture is personality |
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historical particularism
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understand culture by looking for evidence of how it originated
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thick description
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understand culture by looking at contextual clues
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why has culture theory lost its minds?
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look for meanings in minds, not in symbols
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model in culture theory
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conduit model
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