MA Sociology Part I Notes: Paper III Classical Perspective in Cultural Anthropology

 Paper III Classical Perspective in Cultural Anthropology

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Unit I: Origin, Sub-Disciplines and Debates

• European Modernity, Colonialism andAnthropology

• Anthropology and its sub-disciplines: [Biological Anthropology, Linguistics, Pre- Historic Archaeology, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology]

• Claims to holism, the comparative method   and the origin of fieldwork

• Debates in Classical Anthropology [Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, ‘The book view’ and the ‘field view’]

Unit II: Foundational Perspectives

• Evolutionist Perspectives

• Diffusionism: The Kulturkreis school,British diffusionists.

• Historical Particularism

• Structural Functionalism

Unit III: Classical Ethnographic Registers

• Culture and Personality

• Culture History

• Ethnolinguistics

• Village Studies

Unit IV: Diversified Locations

• Classical Studies in Kinship

• Structuralism

• Structuralism in Indian Anthropology

• Diversification of Anthropology: WorldAnthropologies