{"id":1521,"date":"2013-01-08T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T06:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/?page_id=1521"},"modified":"2013-01-08T22:43:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T06:43:58","slug":"anth-theories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/courses\/past-courses\/anth-112s-326\/anth-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Anthropological Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
School<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nMajor Assumption<\/strong><\/td>\nPrincipal Advocates<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Unilineal evolution<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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All societies pass through a series of stages.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tylor, Morgan<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Historical particularism (American)<\/span><\/td>\nDirect fieldwork is necessary before theorizing of cultural development.<\/span><\/td>\nBoas, Kroeber<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Functionalism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Culture can be understood by how it serves human biological and psychological needs.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Malinowski<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Structural functionalism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The primary function of different elements of culture is to keep the entire social system in a steady state, or to maintain social equilibrium.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Radcliffe-Brown<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Neo-evolutionism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Cultures evolve in direct proportion to their capacity to harness energy.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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White, Steward<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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French structuralism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Human cultures are shaped by pre-programmed codes of the human mind.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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L\u00e9vi-Strauss<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ethnoscience<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The ethnographer must describe a culture in terms of native categories (emic) rather than in terms of his\/her own categories (etic).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Sturtevant, Goodenough<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Cultural materialism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Human groups adapt to the conditions in their natural environments.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Harris<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Interpretive anthropology<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Human behaviour stems from the way people perceive and classify the world around them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Geertz<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

After Ferraro (1995:57) and Peoples\/Bailey (2000:51-63)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Created 1999-09-20; last updated 2013-01-08<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School Major Assumption Principal Advocates Unilineal evolution All societies pass through a series of stages. Tylor, Morgan Historical particularism (American) Direct fieldwork is necessary before theorizing of cultural development. Boas, Kroeber Functionalism Culture can be understood by how it serves human biological and psychological needs. Malinowski Structural functionalism The primary …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":337,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521\/revisions\/1525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/limi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}