ANTH 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Emic And Etic, Cultural Ecology, Participant Observation
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Propensity: likeliness to happen, inclination or tendency to behave in a particular way. Non sequitur: statement which doesn"t make logical sense based on the previous statement. Lacking variability in his argument, ignoring variability. Cultural ecology is an extension of functionalism but goes further by looking at explanatory relationships between environment and cultures. Harris called this cultural materialism, mostly focusing on subsistence technology and the energy flow that occurs as a result of that, basically it"s the same thing as cultural materialism. Steward was the one who said that you have to look at the way environment and subsistence technology interacts, so ultimately a combination of white and steward. Choosing specific sets of data or at least not really looking at other sources of data or data which talks about other groups, excluding variability. Because we don"t know who the organizations got their data from/talked to the analysis is rather more top down than bottom up.
