Neo-evolutionism, neo-materialism - Neo-evolutionism/ neo-marxism
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Why did anthropologists became increasingly dissatisfied with 1. historical particularism and 2. functionalism?
1. because of its theoretical poverty and 2. because it was unable to explain at a theoratical level the obvious changes taking place in any society)
After WWII evolutionism made a comeback, but now called neo evolutionism. Neo evolutionism tried to?
- avoid ethnocentric ideas about progress
- tried to understand mechanism of societal change, instead of establishing stages of development
- tried to more give explanations of societal change instead of establishing stages of development
- tried to give explanations of societal change (of wich best example is leslie white's formula: ExT=P)
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