Short notes
Cultural materialism (Harris)
Definition
ETIC (Outsider’s Scientific Perspective)
Example / case study
- M Harris examples(Abtes, USSR, Sacred cow, Islam)
- Increase in marriage age despite same biological adolescence
- Some cultural practices become maladaptive when conditions change.
- Practices once useful may become harmful or irrelevant.
Thinkers
- Bronislaw Malinowski — participant observation; culture exists to satisfy biological and psychological needs.
- • Structural Functionalism – Radcliffe-Brown