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functionalism
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every aspect of a culture serves a purpose
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what is functionalism a response to
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19th century cultural evolutionists
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organic analogy
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society is an organism with initer-related parts that function to maintain organism in steady state
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malinowski
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researched the trobriand
father of fieldwork and participant observation |
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what book did malinowski write
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argonauts of west pacific coral gardens and their magic
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kula ring
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exchange network for status
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canoe magic
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used to protect them on long boat trips
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garden magic
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to protect yam-growing
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what were yams used for
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trading
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who created the american school
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franz boas
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franz boas
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father of american anthropology
data first and theories later cultural determinism historical particularism |
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what does data first and theories later mean
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do fieldwork over research
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cultural determinism
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culture determines behavior
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what does the quote "man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains to culture" refer to
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cultural determinism
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historical particularism
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each society is only understood with its own unique past
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benedict/mead
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students of boas
cultural integration ethnocentrism cultural relativism |
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cultural integration
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indivuality shaped by unique events over lifetime
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ethnocentrism
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belief that one's culture is superior to others and judging other cultural practices as inferior to one's own
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cultural relativism
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being able to judge a culture's practices in its own context, w/o comparing it to one's own
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who was an interpretive anthropologist
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geertz
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geertz
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culture as text(see it from their POV)
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who said "man is an animal suspended in webs of significan he has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law, but an interpretive one in search of meaning"
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clifford geertz
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postmodernism
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criticism of modernism, accompanied by an active questioning of all the boundaries and categories that modernists set up as objectively true
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central critiques of postmodernism
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cant be objective
no truth cuz people experience it differently |
