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    Cultural Relativism by Mark Glazer | Cultural relativism in anthropology is a key methodological concept which is universally accepted within the discipline. This concept is based on theoretical considerations which are key to the understanding of "scientific" anthropology as they are key to the understanding of the anthropological frame of mind. Cultural relativism is an anthropological approach which posit that all cultures are of equal value and need to be studied from a neutral point of view

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    New York: Macmillan 1915 "The Eighteen Professions‚" American Anthropologist‚ 17:283-289. 1944 Configurations of Culture Growth‚ Berkeley: University of California Press 1937 History of Ethnological Theory‚ New York: Farrar and Rinehart. 1944 "Franz Boas‚" Journal of American Folklore‚ 57:288-96.

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    Culture and Personality

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    Personality: Boas and Benedict According to Franz Boas‚ pioneer of Psychological Anthropology or the study of the relationship between culture and personality‚ personality is obtained thru culture and not biology. His theory called Cultural Relativism gives a comprehensive understanding of the underlying relationship between culture and personality. Boas’ student Ruth Benedict expounded the research on the effect of culture to personality through studying cultural various patterns and themes

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    Margaret Mead

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    travel‚ she graduated‚ and was sent to DePauw University at Greencastle Indiana in 1919‚ where her intention was to major in English. Unfortunately‚ Margaret was looked down on in DePauw‚ so she transferred to Barnard College where she studied with Franz Boas and his student Ruth Benedict. It was also at Barnard College that she decided to make anthropology her main field of study. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard in 1923. In September of that same year‚ Margaret was married to Luther in a small

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    as to attain a higher social recognition. This is also described as an economic exchange. 3. The article is about the Kwakiutl people and other Native American groups‚ located in British Columbia who practiced Potlatch. An anthropologist named Franz Boas used the name Kwakiutl to refer to an ethno-linguistic

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    Lindsay Deegan Seinor year at Barnard took from Dr. franz boas in the departent of anthropology she always liked anthropology and now she knew its what she wanted to do. Anthropology studies man’s place in nature. Like in the beginings of growths and the difference between people all around the world. 3 things people who want to be an anthropologeist can do is exavate th remains of past civilizations‚ study the varrying phisical characteristics of races among man kind some anthropologiests trace

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    Margaret Mead

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    about anthropology and its holistic vision of the human species. Frank Boas was one of the first partners in her life. Mr. Boas was a fellow anthropologist. He felt that Margaret would bring a fresh look into culture through a woman’s mind. Mr. Boas always focused and worked with men in his studies. He felt that Mead would be a good candidate to collect the information from younger woman because Mead was a young female also. Boas sent Margaret to a remote island to study the Samoa adolescent females

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    Franz Schubert

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    Franz Seraphicus Peter Schubert is a founder of Romantics and one of the four great pillars of Classicism – along with Haydn‚ Mozart‚ and Beethoven. Although he only lived for thirty-one years‚ he produced a large number of masterpieces during his short but prolific career. Today people recognize Schubert’s greatness‚ but he was unknown and poor for whole life. In total‚ he composed over six hundred secular vocal works‚ seven complete symphonies‚ sacred music‚ operas‚ incidental music and a large

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    Franz Schubert

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    FRANZ SCHUBERTMusic Appreciation Section 02 FRANZ SCHUBERT “I HAVE COME INTO THE WORLD FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE BUT TO COMPOSE” It was Franz Peter Schubert‚ who said to a friend “I have come into the world for no other purpose but to compose”. For someone to be so certain‚ focused and dedicated at such a young age with extraordinary talent and promise‚ finding out more about Schubert’s life and astonishing music was a must for me. Franz Peter Schubert was bone in Vienna‚ on January 31‚ 1797

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    Franz Marc

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    Introduction Franz Marc was a German artist and printmaker‚ and also one of the key statistics of the German Expressionist movement. Franz Marc was born in February 8‚ 1880 in Munich and past away in March 4‚ 1916‚ eventually Marc was only 36 years old. Wilhelm‚ the father‚ was an expert landscape painter; his mother‚ Sophie‚ was a strict Calvinist. Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts‚ Munich in 1900. In 1903 and 1907‚ he spent time in France‚ intensely in Paris‚ visiting the city’s

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