Cultural Anthropologys big names

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Cultural Anthropologys big names

• Howard Culbertson
• Southern Nazarene University

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Leslie White

• Developed the cultural materialist approach with
  focus on how the techno-economic aspects of
  culture determine the social and ideological
  spheres

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A.R. Radcliff-Brown

• Developed the structural-functional approach to
  look at how each aspect of society contributes to
  the maintenance of the whole

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Bronislaw Malinowski

• Outlined the biological and psychological needs
  of people that must be fulfilled by culture, and
  pioneered the participant observation method

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Margaret Mead

• A founding mother of anthropology who pioneered
  the cross-cultural study of personality

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Ruth Fulton Benedict

• Wrote the classic Patterns of Culture which
  viewed cultures as coherent patterns

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Julian H. Steward

• Founder of the cultural ecology approach that
  focuses on the interactions of cultures with
  their environments

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Claude Levi-Strauss

• Established structuralism, which considers the
  underlying mental structures that culture
  represents

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Lewis Henry Morgan

• A 19th century scholar who developed the
  evolutionary approach and pioneered the
  comparative study of culture

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Sir Edward B. Tylor

• Provided a classic definition of culture key
  theorist in the anthropology of religion

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Franz Boas

• Set high standard for excellence in fieldwork
  and developed the idea of cultural relativity

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Cultural Anthropologys big names(end)

• Howard Culbertson
• Southern Nazarene University