m1 Flashcards
What’s Physical Anthropology?
-Human Fossils
-Distinctive features of contemporary groups.
What’s Archeology?
-Material remains from past cultures
-Ecological environments
-Causes that led to its demise
What’s Anthropology Linguistics?
-Diversity of spoken languages
-Reconstruct the history of their origin
What’s Cultural Anthropology ?
Or Social Anthropology
-Description from past and today’s culture.
-Medical, urban, religion…
Evolutionist school: the scientist have to discover the stages of all cultures to reach the highest level of development
True
3 stages of development according to the Taxonomy of Marzal #1
- Description of other cultures and reflection on the transformation of their practices
3 stages of development according to the Taxonomy of Marzal #2
- Search for scientific laws of evolution of societies and their institutions
3 stages of development according to the Taxonomy of Marzal #3
- Search for scientific laws of the functioning of societies, from divergent approaches
Which school argues that the societies shall pass through states of development?
Evolutionist School
-Scientific
-Highest level of development
-European societies
Who established the bases of the study of the anthropology and proposed the first concept of culture?
Tylor
Who proposed a classification of the evolution of mankind in three stages?
Lewis H. Morgan
Lower Savagery:
Collection of
-wild food
-promiscuity
-nomadic horde
Higher Savegery:
-Utensils for hunting (bows and arrows)
-Banned marraige among siblings
Barbarism:
-Agriculture and pottery
-Prohibition of incest
Higher Barbarism:
-Development of Metallurgy
-Private property instead of common goods.
-Polygyny
Civilization:
-Writing development
-CIvil government
-Monogamy
Historical Particularism (school):
-Every culture or society is the consequence of its own process
-NO to the existence of savage cultures and higher cultures
-Its model had to be the only one
Difussionism (school):
-Cultures adopted their elements by imitation.
-Cultural characteristics diffused from one society to another
-Acculturation (exchange of cultural features)
Functionalism (school):
-Describe the functions of the customs and institutions for the society studied
-Understand its origins
Structural Functionalism (school):
-Society was organized as a whole
-Importance of field work for long periods which provides valid and reliable data
French Structuralism (school):
-Society was organized as a whole
-Importance of field work for long periods which provides valid and reliable data
1 of the most representative works: research about the way the society keeps integrated and allows its appropriate funct
Functionalism
What’s Ethnocentrism?
Judging other cultures using our own cultural standards
What’s Affinity?
Set of relationships that link two groups through marriage and social solidarity with people outside the nuclear family. In law relatives.