Culture Change & Globalization Flashcards
External sources
Diffusion is responsible for most change
What’s the outcome of diffusion?
Acculturation
Archaeological records
Reveals patterns and trends of culture change
-change in time (weapons changing)
Historical Records
Provides documents about change over time into public aspects of culture such as politics and economics
Life histories
Learning about change through talking with elders where written records may not be available
Ethnographic restudies
Documentation of change
Impact studies
Ethnographic study of a situation to document effects of change
May take place during and/or after a program of cultural restructuring
Define the unilineal evolutionist perspective for cultural change
Emphasized that every culture proceeded through a series of successive stages
What are the 3 stages of Unlineal evolutionist perspective for cultural change
1) savagery
2) barbarism
3) civilization
Savagery
Procuring food through foraging, hunting, and gathering and using tools (bow and arrow)
Barbarism
Innovation of property, domestication of animals and plants
-also smelting of iron
Civilization
Invention of the alphabet
-discussion of kinship & political organization
Who collected early ethnographic data?
Collected by American missionaries, the military, and merchant seamen
-Early paradigms were very linear
When it comes to colonialism, what perspective was used to suppress the exploit indigenous people?
Evolutionary models and data generated were used by governments, bureaucracies and individuals to fuel colonialism
Who used this type of perspective for using to suppress and exploit indigenous people
Lewis Henry Morgan
