Powerpoint Slides Week 4 pt. 1 Flashcards
Franz Boas and his students deemphasize __________ between separate _________.
boundaries’
societies
______ ______ and his students deemphasize boundaries between separate societies.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas focused on _______ and ____________ of cultural practices from one society to its neighbors.
diffusion
dissemination
_____ _____ focused on diffusion and dissemination of cultural practices from one society to its neighbors.
Franz Boas
_____ _____ noted agency in indigenous groups to change cultural traditions.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas noted ______ in indigenous groups to change cultural traditions.
agency
Franz Boas and his students attacked ________ __________.
unilineal evolutionism
_____ _____ and his students attacked unilineal evolutionism.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas called his approach “the _________ ______.”
historical method
_____ _____’s “historical method” was used to combat the concept of biological “race.”
Franz Boas
Franz Boas’s “_________ _______” was used to combat the concept of biological “race.”
historical method
Franz Boas’s “historical method” was used to combat the concept of biological “_____”
race
Franz Boas suggested that if people, practices, or artifacts could move across social boundaries, then the social boundaries could not be ___________.
impermeable
19th century ideas about the supposedly firm boundaries around “_____” were vulnerable to critique.
races
19th century ideas about the supposedly firm boundaries around “races” were _________ to critique.
vulnerable
Boas had many influential students and followers, including?
(1) Margaret Mead
(2) Ruth Benedict
(3) Edward Sapir
Franz Boas and his students emphasized the importance of _______ _________.
cultural relativism
______ _____ and his students emphasized the importance of cultural relativism.
Franz Boas
The early encounters between anthropologists and Native Americans contributed to the development of the discipline of anthropology being intertwined with the history of _________ (and Euro-American) _________.
European
imperialism
The early encounters between ____________ and _______ _________ contributed to the development of the discipline of anthropology being intertwined with the history of European (and Euro-American) imperialism.
anthropologists
Native Americans
__________ has been the most powerful contributor to intercultural knowledge and important philosophical complication the world has ever seen.
Ethnography
What is neocolonialism?
The persistence of profound social and economic entanglements linking former colonial territories to their former colonial rulers despite political sovereignty.
Most of the societies studied by anthropologists, even 100 years ago, had been affected by the presence of others, especially _________.
Europeans
Because of ___________ new identities and social forms have been created by indigenous groups.
neocolonialism
Because of neocolonialism new ________ and ______ ______ have been created by indigenous groups.
identities
social forms
Because of neocolonialism new identities and social forms have been created by ________ groups.
indigenous
What is a typology?
A classification system based on (in this case) forms of human society
Typology is used to classify the societies they study according to their _________ and __________.
similarities
differences
_________ is used to classify the societies they study according to their similarities and differences.
Typology
_______ __________ has evolutionary typologies.
Unilineal evolutionism
Unilineal evolutionism has _________ typologies.
evolutionary
Unilineal evolutionism has evolutionary _________.
typologies
According to unilineal evolutionism there are a series of stages through which all societies had passed or would pass on their way to “_________”
civilization
Despite its excesses, unilineal cultural evolutionism highlights what two things?
(1) cultures change over time
(2) our species has experienced a broad sequence of cultural developments.
When did functionalism first occur?
1920s–1970s
Who endorsed Unilineal Evolutionism?
Spencer, Tylor, Morgan
___________ challenged unilineal evolutionism.
Functionalism
Functionalism challenged _______ ___________.
unilineal evolutionism
___________ focus on social structure (enduring aspects of relations between people) and how it functioned (to handle economic, political, or
kinship matters).
Functionalism
Functionalism focus on ______ ________ (enduring aspects of relations between people) and how it _________ (to handle economic, political, or
kinship matters).
social structure
functioned
Who endorsed functionalism?
Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, and Evans-Pritchard
Structural functionalism puts an emphasis on ______ _______.
social stability
________ __________ puts an emphasis on social stability.
Structural functionalism
When was structural functionalism created and by whom?
Radcliffe-Brown (1930s/ 1940s)
Structural-functionalist typologies may seem _____ and ______.
rigid
static
________-__________ typologies may seem rigid and static.
Structural
functionalist
