Like many theoretical trends or schools of thought, James P. Spradley’s approach was based on a critique of approaches found in previous scientific and legal approaches to alcoholics and homeless people. What was wrong with these models according to Spradley?

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The anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss is associated with

Sherry Ortner argues that

As investigators who illustrated the functionalist approach in anthropology, both Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown performed ethnographic research focused on

According to Marvin Harris, his theory differs from that of Marx because

As we see in the film “Claude Lévi-Strauss: Par lui-même,” Lévi-Strauss felt that anthropologists had an important role to play in the modern world. What was that role?  

Melville J. Herskovits always presented his anthropological research as the result of scientific discoveries. We learned that, in addition to his own original ethnographic research, his theories were the result of

“We refrain from the attempt to solve the fundamental problem of the general development of civilization until we have been able to unravel the processes what are going on under our eyes.” In other words, anthropologists should delay constructing general theories that fit all of humankind before we understand each culture fully. Who is associated with this idea?

For Leslie White, the purpose of culture is to: