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
• Diffusionism: The Kulturkreis school,British diffusionists.
Unit III: Classical Ethnographic Registers
Unit IV: Diversified Locations
• Classical Studies in Kinship
