Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANT110 - Fall 2007 - Key concepts covered through 9/28

ethnography

comparative approach

fieldwork:

functionalism

"armchair anthropology"
  • unilineal evolution

    cultural relativism
  • ethical dilemmas

    ethnocentrism

    exoticism
  • Natl. Geographic representations

    ahistoricism
  • vsi p. 25; Natl. Geographic

    diffusionism
  • Lowie's four explanations

    culture
  • five contradictions identified by Barth

    relationships between cultural and biological diversity

    socialization

    division of labor

    neolocal vs. uxorilocal postmarital residence

    positionality