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							                                 What is Anthropology?
                          Chpt. 1 Cultural Anthropology Review

All key terms

Sect. 1.1 Cultural Anthropology and Understanding Human Culture and Behaviour
Spotlight on Anthro: Yanomamo – Chagnon
Cultural Anthropology
The Language of Social Sciences
Disciplines, branches, fields, schools of thought

Research Tools of Cultural Anthropologists
Finding Informants
Interviews
Unstructured
Semi-structured
Structured
Counting People, Photographs, Mapping

Ethnology
How Do Ethnologists Study Culture?
Problems of Participant Observation
Reaching reliable conclusions:
Landmark Case Study: Richard Lee and the Dobe Ju/’hoansi

Schools of Thought in Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Relativism
Boas
Functional Theory
Malinoski
Cultural Materialism
Harris
Margolis
Feminist Anthropology
Postmodernism

Linguistic Anthropology
Define Historical, Structural and Sociolinguistics.
Historical Linguistics
Using Linguistics

Structural Linguistics
Choamsky
Sociolinguistics