Anthropology

Anthropology

1. Culture and Personality

   • Psychological aspects of an individual and the culture
   • Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead
   • Five different viewpoints
     • The two-systems
     • The configuration approach
     • psychological reducionism
     • Personality meditation
     • Anti-culture-personality relationship

2. Functionalism

   • Two versions
     • Structural-functionalism
     • Malionwski's bicultural functionalism
   • Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
     • Biggest influence on the developement
   • Society through organic analogy
     • Parts of society to organs of a living organism

3. Structuralism

   • Claude Levi-Strauss
     • Father of structural anthropology
   • Describing conciousness
     • Golf that existed between subject and object of human thought
     • Underlying meaning involved in human thought as expressed in cultural acts

4. Materialism

   • Cultural similarities and differences
     • Infastrucure
     • Structure
     • Superstructure
     • Technological and economic aspects are primary
   • Marvin Harris
     • Successfully created an anthropological theory