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Main Characteristics

of Anthropology

Culture and Personality slides
  1. culture: as a primary concept

    • learned
    • shared
    • transmitted from generation to generation
    • based on symbols
    • integrated
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  3. comparative methods: as major approaches to the study of human behavior development and structure

 

  1. holism: or the study of "humankind" as a whole, as a primary goal of anthropology

    • The approach used in this class emphasizes the "holistic" anthropological view which combines observations of "culture" and behavior with considerations of the physical and developmental aspects of humans and their civilizations

    • Chart: "Anthropology and . . . Its Parts"
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