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31 Cards in this Set
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Name the four men who did stuff about Theory.
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1) Tylor
2) Frazer 3) Herbert Spencer 4) Henry Morgan |
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Who is considered the "father of anthropology?"
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Tylor
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What is animism?
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Belief in spiritual beings
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What is the "Evolutionary Sequence of Religion?"
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Animism-Polytheism-Monotheism
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What did Tylor come up with?
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The "Evolutionary Sequence of Religion"
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Who believed in animism?
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Tylor
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What is the "Golden Bough" about?
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Rituals and myths compared to culture
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Who wrote the "Golden Bough?"
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Frazer
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What did Herbert Spencer believe?
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Social Darwinism
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What is "Social Darwinism?"
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Some groups fit to rule others
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What type of anthropologists are considered "ethnocentric?"
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Amateur Anthropologists
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What do amateur anthropologists study and what are they interested in?
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They studied primitive societies and are interested in origins of social institutions and cultural practices
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What is "psychic unity of mankind?"
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All people uniform in origin and development
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What is "conjectural history?"
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Speculative reconstruction of past lifeways
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What is the "unilinear progress?"
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Savagery-Barbarism-Civilization
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What is "Argonauts of West Pacific and Coral Gardens and their Magic" about?
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It explained how beliefs in magic served as a function for that culture
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What "problems" do amateur anthropologists have?
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Ethnocentric, conjectural history, and diffusion
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What is diffusion?
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Change due to outside influences
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What is "biopsychological functionalism?"
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Customs exist to satisfy bio and psych needs of people
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What are "problems" of biopsychological functionalism?
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no room for cultural change and practices are maladaptive
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What is "functionalism?"
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A social custom or institution fulfills a fuction
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What is organic analogy?
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Society is organism with inter-related parts and functions to maintain organism in steady state
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Who is the "father of AMERICAN anthropology?"
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Franz Boas
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Who is the "father of fieldwork and particpant obersvation?"
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Malinowski
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What was Franz Boas belief in theory?
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Data first, make theories later
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What book did Malinowski write?
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Argonauts of West Pacific and Coral Gardens and their Magic
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Who came up with "cultural determinism?"
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Franz Boas
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What is "cultural determinism?"
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Culture determines behavior
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Besides cultural determinism what else did Boas come up with?
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Historical particularism
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What is Franz Boas famous quote?
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Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains to culture
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What is "historical particularism?"
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Each society understood only with its own past.(unique)
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