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| the description of society or culture. An ethnographer attempts to describe an entire society or a particular set of cultural institutions or practices. Based on extensive first-hand study |
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| the attempt to find general principles or laws that govern cultural phenomena |
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| attempts to capture what ideas and practices mean to members of a culture and how it feels to live within the culture |
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| describes and analyzes culture according to principles and theories drawn from Western scientific tradition, such as ecology, economy, or psychology |
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| the study of human society and culture |
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| attempting to understand cultures within their contexts. |
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| the way members of a society adapt to their environment and give meaning to their lives. |
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| believing one’s own behaviors to be right and natural. |
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| a group of people who depend on one another for survival or well-being |
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| culture and personality theorist |
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| studier of childhood learning and its implications for adults and the culture itself |
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| theoretical perspective of describing the systems of organization and classification used by individual cultures |
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| The theory that all aspects of a society serve a function |
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| focus on the relationships between society and environment/ecosystem |
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| shared ideas about the way things ought to be done., rules of behavior that reflect and enforce culture |
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| shared ideas about what is true, right, and beautiful. |
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| shared ideas about what is true, right, and beautiful. |
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| a theoretical position that focuses on issues of voice and power, suggesting that anthropological accounts are only partial truths and reflect the backgrounds of their authors. |
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| changing to better suit the environment |
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| Franz Boaz's style of fieldwork in which the anthropologist both observes members of a culture as well as participates with them to the greatest extent possible. |
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| approaching a culture from their perspective and with suspended judgment |
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| creator of participant observation. Anthropologist who argued that human beings have equal capacities for culture and that no cultures were of more value/ more evolved than others. Supported racial equality |
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| Spent years with society of Trobriand Islands during WWII. Because he could not leave he did some of the most extensive and revolutionary fieldwork to date. He developed a form of ethnography centered on empathic understandings of native lifeways and on analyzing culture by describing social institutions and showing the cultural and psychological functions they performed. Also stressed interrelation of elements of culture. |
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| Anthropologist who took two expeditions to the Torres Straights and became professors at Cambridge, passing his belief of understandings based on fieldwork. |
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