ANT 3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Clark Wissler, Cultural Anthropology, Marxist Archaeology
Document Summary
Art and architectural history; culture history, culture reconstruction, culture process. Culture history involves tracing the history of past cultural units (form) and placing them in their proper time/space position. Initial research in early-mid 1900s was very descriptive and defined by trait lists. Culture reconstruction reconstruction of past lifeways; trying to write ethnographies of the past (walter w. taylor, 1948, a study of archaeology) Artifact function studies it would be more meaningful if artifacts were regarded as tools employed by humans in some pattern of behavior (julian steward, 1938) Analogy pointing out a series of similarities in two or more phenomena, and concluding from those observable similarities that the phenomena are similar in additional (usually unobservable) ways; an ampliative argument. General analogy broad generalizations and comparisons based on multiple cultural traditions. Specific analogy comparisons based on a particular cultural tradition. 1: cultural continuity, comparability in environment, similarity in cultural form. Sources for analogs in archaeology: ethnographies, ethnoarchaeology, experimental.
