ANTH 3690 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Logic, Émile Durkheim, Amplitude Modulation
20 Nov 2018
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Ingestion of modern science of a method of intellectual investigation. Mind of newborn is blank slate, written on by life. Predicting: science goes through phases until it is able to predict the future. Looking for consistent patterns in society that can be replicated in the future. Evolution: in the realm of culture or biology, the transformation of one form into another. All societies evolved through the same stages and were progressing toward civilization. Victorian society = civilization at the highest (but will be surpassed) Maybe people were at victorian society but somehow became. Comparative method: use of extant primitive peoples to represent extinct primitive peoples, as in classical cultural evolutionism. Psychic unity of humankind/mankind: the doctrine that all peoples have the same fundamental capacity for change. We have limited opportunities in what we can create. Fascinated by iroquois, part of the league of the iroquois fraternity order which tried to recreate iroquois practices.
