Anthropology-Kottak Chapter 3, Vocab
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- Life History
- of a key consult a personal portrait of someone's life in a culture
- Emic
- research strategy focusing on local explanations and meanings
- Cultural Consultants
- People who teach an ethnographer about their culture
- Etic
- Research strategy emphasizing the ethnographers explanations and categories
- Longitudal research
- long term study, usually based on repeated visits
- Survey Research
- the study of society through sampling, statistical analysis, and impersonal data collection
- Sample
- a smaller study group chosen to represent a larger population
- random sample
- a sample in which all population members have an equal chance of inclusion
- variables
- attributes that differ from one person or case to the next
- complex societies
- large, populous societies with stratification's a government
- unilinear evolutionism
- idea (19th century) of a single line or a path or cultural development
- historical particularism
- idea (boas) that histories are not comparable, diverse paths can lead to the same cultural result
- synchronic
- studying societies at one time
- diachronic
- studying societies across time
- configurationalism
- view of a culture as integrated and patterned
- cultural materialism
- idea (Harris) that cultural infrastructure determines structure and super structure
- Superorganic
- (Kroeber) the special domain of culture, beyond the organic and inorganic realms
- Symbolic Anthropology
- the study of symbols in their social and cultural context
- interpretive anthropology
- (Geetz) The study of culture as a system of meaning
- agency
- the actions of individuals, along, and in groups, that create and transform culture
- political economy
- the web of interrelated economic and power relations in society