Monogenism correct answers -unilineal evolutionist approach
- all humanity follows a line of progress, a single path of development
-All humans are human, they just develop at different rates
Polygenism correct answers -Diversitarian (racial differences are the cause of cultural and moral
diversity - Darwin)
-Human diversity as evidence of distinct species
-Racist
-Different species of human
- hierarchy is white people and then everyone else
Degenerationism correct answers -Biblical
- monogenism (adam and eve)
-Everyone "fell" and devolved
-They re-evolved at different rates
-used as racism and justified through bible
Myth of the "Noble Savage" correct answers - a romantic, idealized view of other societies, seen
as untainted by the problems of "modern life"
- savage measured by physical strength
- started appropriation of Native Americans
- uses racial differences
- hierarchy
Edward Burnett Tylor
- PU
, - GL correct answers -psychic unity
-general law (cause and effect: evolution of society produces a series of responses to the
challenges of the world)
-unilineal universalism
Unilineal evolutionism correct answers -Edward Burnett Tylor
-All humanity progressing a long single line/path of development
-Europe in the lead
-Progress linked to reason
-Finding in other societies evidence of earlier stages in human development
Comparative Method correct answers -Culture traits
-"Dissecting" other societies to sequence evolution
-Not interested in understanding societies as a whole
-Comparing very specific elements (e.g. marriage practices) across cultures
Psychic Unity correct answers - A concept popular among some nineteenth-century
anthropologists who assumed that all people, when operating under similar circumstances, will
think and behave in similar ways.
- a shared humanity & emphasis on reason
Armchair ethnology correct answers If culture viewed from distance, the anthropologist
measures it against their own and draws comparisons that theirs is superior
- Tylor
Etic correct answers - comparison
- descriptive categories of observers (outsider)