ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multilineal Evolution, Cultural Ecology, Enculturation
6 Nov 2015
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Nineteenth-century evolutionism: unilineal evolution complexity and industrial progress. Critique of unilineal evolution: what are some problems with unilineal evolution, built on racist and ethnocentric views of human development and a misapplication of biological evolution to societal differences. : the spread of cultural traits from one society to another: british diffusionism. Associated with g. elliot smith and william j. perry. Diffusion and subsequent degeneration accounts for differences: german diffusionism. Kulturkreise (culture circles) = several centers of civilization. Diffusion and subsequent degeneration accounts for differences. Limitations: viewed non-western peoples as insufficiently intelligent to develop their own cultural traits, assumed diffusion is inevitable, strengths, recognized diffusion as a real and important source of cultural change. Historical particularism: historical particularism is understood as a unique product of its own history. : an approach to studying human societies in which each society: popular during the first half of the 20th century, culture-and-personality theory relationship between enculturation and personality formation in human societies.
