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FRANZ MARGARET RUTH BOAS MEAD BENEDICT @@ cLaui ERIC LEVI-STRAUSS = WOLF @ 1942) ~“THE FATHER OF MODERN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY" MADE ADVANCE THEORIES EASIER TO UNDERSTAND --> PAVED THE WAY OF ‘OBSERVING & ANALYZING HUMAN RACE CONSIDERS PERSPECTIVES OF OTHER ‘SCIENCE DISCIPLINES WHEN RESEARCHING “ONE OF THE FIRST TO RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF ANTHROPOLOGY -POINTED OUT THAT INDIVIDUAL IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE SOCIAL GROUP AND THE ‘CULTURAL PLACE AFFECT § PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY DISPROVED NOTION OF WESTERN SUPERIORITY WITH HIS THEORY OF RELATIVISM AND WAS ABLE TO APPLY IT IN PROVING THE RACIST BELIEFS THAT TIME WERE FALSE @™2 1978) ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ANTHROPOLOGISTS BECAUSE OF HER CONTROVERSIAL REASEARCH AND AND IS. (OFTEN KNOWN AS A REBEL ANTHROPOLOGIST ~THEORIZED THAT CULTURE HAS AN INFLUENCE ON ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR ~OBSERVING SAMOAN CHILDREN. SHE ‘CONCLUDED THAT EXTERNAL FACTORS WILL LIKELY EFFECT THE TEENAGER'S EMOTION ALSO ADDRESSED SEXUALITY IN SEVERAL OF HER RESEARCH TOPICS WHICH MADE HER ‘ONE OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE WORLD O22 1948) BENEDICT'S WORK IN ANTHROPOLOGY ‘AND FOLKLORE MADE HER ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN TO EARN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION ~IN HER BOOK. “PATTERNS OF CULTURE.” SHE EXPLAINED UNDERSTANDING. TRADITIONAL CULTURES IS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND MODERN MAN BECAUSE THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE Two Qs 2009) ~ CLAUDE L. VI-STRAUSS IS KNOWN AS THE “FOUNDER OF STRUCTURALISM”. HE GAINED FAMED FORIT AFTER HE APPLIED ‘THEORIES OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS TO ‘THE FIELD OF ANTHROPOLOGY HE SUGGESTED THAT WE. HUMANS, ARE ‘ABLE TO COMPARE AND ANALYSE CULTURES BECAUSE OF EXISTING UNCONSCIOUS WORLDWIDE STRUCTURES. ‘OR RULES. THAT EXIST IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO OQ 999) “ERIC WOLF GRABBED ATTENTION THROUGH HIS WORKS BECAUSE OF HOW MARXIST IDEALS INFLUENCED HIM AND HIS WORK. HE RESEARCH AND OBSERVED ‘THE PEASANT SOCIETIES IN MEXICO AND EUROPE, -HE ARGUED THAT STUDYING CULTURE NEEDS TO BE VIEWED FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND ALSO GAVE AN EMPHASIS ON HOW CULTURE IS DYNAMIC -WOLF THEORIZED THAT WHEN CAPITALIST NATIONS GROW AND EXPAND. IT CAUSES A REACTION WITHIN THE NATIVES THAT CHANGES THEIR ‘BEHAVIORS AND PRACTICES

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