Anthropologists

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1)Lorna Marshal [L6.2]

--> Etic perspective
-->Geo determines culture.
=> ! Kung Bushman
=-->lives in equitorial humid climate
=-->shares food habbit.

=>Inutts(from secondary sources)
=-->they are eskimos...do not share food.
=-->in ice food can be preserve.

-->counter to "Geo determines cultre"
=>Franz Boas studied inutts field study not from secondry sources)...found inutts share food just like ! Kung Bushman. 

-->second conclusion= same geo implies same culture.
=>counter:
1)G//ana (read as Lana)....same geo as that of !Kun Bushman....but do not share food.
=>this is becoz...G//ana has tech to preserve the food.

Note now read conclusion of Lorna Marshal Leslie White (Neo-Evolutionist)

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Caste

=>it was studied by 3 people =1)Senart 2)MN Sriniwasa 3)Ghuriye.


1)Senart:

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Neo Evolutionist

1) Shalin And Service
=>they gave economic subsitence=food collection + foragers.
=>Foraging --->hunting --> pastoral horticulture--2 branches(1= intensive agri---> industry) (2=primitive agri).



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2) Leslie white
=>E X T = C
=> E= energy + T=Tech + C=Culture.
=>Technology influences culture.






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Functional School

1)Malinowski:
=>Marriage= its a social institution that provides a legitimate father to a child and a legitimate husband to a wife.




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