All societies pass through stages.

(Tylor, Morgan)

Societies are product of histories and experiences.

(Boas, Kroeber)

TASK OF ANTHROPOLOGIST:

Show the relationship bet. Psychological and Cultural variables; child-rearing = personality structure

(Benedict, Sapir, Mead)

Meaning is produced and reproduced within a culture through various practices, phenomena and activities which serve as systems of signification. Human cultures shaped by programmed codes of human mind.

(Levi-Strauss)

ETIC: Material conditions determine human conciousness and behavior

(Harris)

Human behavior stems from the way people perceive and classify the world around them

(Geertz)

All societies change because of cultural borrowing

(Elliot Smith, W.J. Perry, Fritz Graebner, Wilhelm Schmidt)

TASK:

to understand how culture functioned for well-being of the individual (and society)

(Malinowski)

C=ExT

(White)

Three Types of Evolutionary Thought

(Under Neoevolutionism)

1.) Unilinear Evolution or "Stages Model"

(Tylor, Morgan)

2.) Universal Evolution or "Cultural Laws"

(White)

3.) Multilinear Evolution

(Steward)

Ethnography must be viewed in the EMIC view

(Sutrtevant, Goodenough)

As Chef Ed Spins:

C - Cultural Materialism

H - Historicism

E - Ethnocience

F - Functionalism

E - Evolutionism

D - Diffusionism

S - Structural-Functionalism

P - Psychologicial Anthropology

I - Interpretative Anthopology

N - Neoevolutionism

S - Structuralism :-)