Anthropology Theories
Structural Linguistics
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Materialism 🥘
Functionalism 👷
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Marx, Engels 
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According to Harris, culture develops in three stages;
The Infrastructure A society's material resources - technology, population, available land, etc.
The Structure A society's familial, political, economic, and social systems
The Superstructure A society's ideas, values, symbols, and religion
the theory states that materials or conditions within the environment influence how a culture develops, creating the ideas and ideology of a culture
Malinowski 
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Functional theory is the idea that every belief, action, or relationship in a culture functions to meet the needs of individuals.
study of human languages and how language affects and expresses culture focusing on language as a system of interrelated structures
Noam Chomsky
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Feminist Anthropology 👩
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Beginning in the 1970s, feminist anthropologists re-examined anthropology to ensure that female voices were heard and included in research, They also compared cultures to see how many were dominated by men, how many were dominated by women, and how many were egalitarian.
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Ernestine Friedl, an American feminist anthropologist concluded in forager societies, the amount of freedom women had was strongly tied to their contributions to the food supply.
Androcentrism: “deeply held cultural bias to view the male as intellectually, spiritually, and physically superior to the female”
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individuals have physiological needs and that social institutions exist to meet these needs.
Interdependence
Long-term survival
Functions
argued societies go through the several stages, from tribalism to feudalism to capitalism to communism.
Posessions
Consiousness
the theory of universal grammar: that all human children are born with internal, universal rules for grammar and that they apply these rules as they learn their mother tongue.
language is a basic instinct
Universal grammar
Instinct
Structural
climate
food supply
geography
Feminist Anthropology is an approach to anthropology that seeks to reduce male bias in research findings, anthropological hiring practices, and the scholarly production of knowledge
Feminism
Post modern
Liberal
female identity and issues faced by women
gender roles
gender bias
gender relationships
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reason why we can recognize grammatically correct yet nonsensical phrases such as,
“colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
Health - Hygiene
Bodily Comforts - Protection