Quinebaug Valley
Community College
Danielson, CT 06239

Brian Donohue-Lynch
Anthropology/Sociology



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Cultural Particularism


Cultural Particularism (associated with Franz Boas, among others) emphasized the importance of studying each culture in itself, without trying to explain and/or understand it in some larger theoretical framework. This approach has been marked by such things as detailed data collection and the ideal of objective participant observation.


Other Theoretical Approaches in Anthropology:

Functionalist approaches...

Feminist approaches...

Structuralism

Materialism

Cultural Materialism

Interpretive Approaches


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