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XII. Render the text close to its original variant. I. Look through the words and expressions and learn them:




 

 

Unit XIV

I. Look through the words and expressions and learn them:

Ø unilinealism – однолінійність;

Ø diffusionism – розсіювання;

Ø anthropometrical techniques – антропометричні засоби;

Ø experiential immersion – досвідне занурення;

Ø gender equality – статева рівноправність/рівноправ’я;

Ø to broaden – розширюватися;

Ø the encounter – зіткнення;

Ø a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism – сприймання певних видів культурної відносності;

Ø differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups – розрізнення місцевих етнічних та лінгвістичних груп;

Ø increasing in scope and momentum – зростання в масштабі та рушійній силі;

Ø to yield insights – давати розуміння

 

II. Read and translate the text:

ANTROPOLOGY

Anthropology (from Greek: anthropos - "human being"; and logos - "knowledge") is the study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Ethnography is both one of its primary methods, and the text that is written as a result of the practice of anthropology.

The anthropologist Eric Wolf once described anthropology as "the most scientific of the humanities, and the most humanistic of the sciences." Contemporary anthropologists claim a number of earlier thinkers as their forebears, and the discipline has several sources; Claude Lévi-Strauss, for example, claimed Montaigne and Rousseau as important influences. Anthropology can best be understood as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted systematically to study human behavior. The traditions of jurisprudence, history, philology, and sociology then evolved into something more closely resembling the modern views of these disciplines and informed the development of the social sciences, of which anthropology was a part. At the same time, the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment produced thinkers, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and later Wilhelm Dilthey, whose work formed the basis for the "culture concept," which is central to the discipline.

Institutionally, anthropology emerged from the development of natural history (expounded by authors such as Buffon) that occurred during the European colonization of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Programs of ethnographic study originated in this era as the study of the "human primitives" overseen by colonial administrations. There was a tendency in late 18th century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved in accordance with certain principles and that could be observed empirically. In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism. Most 19th-century social theorists, including anthropologists, viewed non-European societies as windows onto the pre-industrial human past. As academic disciplines began to differentiate over the course of the 19th century, anthropology grew increasingly distinct from natural history, on the one hand, and from purely historical or literary fields such as Classics, on the other. A common criticism has been that other fields focus disproportionately on the Westerns while anthropology focuses disproportionately on "others".

During the late 19th-century, battles over the "study of man" took place between those of an "anthropological" persuasion (relying on anthropometrical techniques) and those of an "ethnological" persuasion (looking at cultures and traditions), and these distinctions became part of the later divide between physical anthropology and cultural anthropology.

In the twentieth century, academic disciplines have often been institutionally divided into three broad domains. The natural and biological sciences seek to derive general laws through reproducible and falsifiable experiments. The humanities generally study different local traditions, through their history, literature, music, and arts, with an emphasis on understanding particular individuals, events, or eras. The social sciences have generally attempted to develop scientific methods to understand social phenomena in a generalizable way, though usually with methods distinct from those of the natural sciences. In particular, social sciences often develop statistical descriptions rather than the general laws derived in physics or chemistry, or they may explain individual cases through more general principles, as in many fields of psychology. Anthropology (like some fields of history) does not easily fit into one of these categories, and different branches of anthropology draw on one or more of these domains.

Since the work of Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, cultural and social anthropology has been distinguished from other social science disciplines by its emphasis on in-depth examination of context, cross-cultural comparisons (socio-cultural anthropology is by nature a comparative discipline), and the importance it places on long-term, experiential immersion in the area of research, often known as participant-observation. Cultural-Social anthropology in particular has emphasized cultural relativity and the use of their findings to frame cultural critiques. This has been particularly prominent in America, from Boas's arguments against 19th-century racial ideology, through Margaret Mead's advocacy for gender equality and sexual liberation, to current criticisms of post-colonial oppression and promotion of multiculturalism.

In the mid-20th century, much of the methodologies of earlier anthropological and ethnographical study were reevaluated with an eye towards research ethics, while at the same time the scope of investigation has broadened far beyond the traditional study of "primitive cultures" (scientific practice itself is often an arena of anthropological study).

Anthropology as it emerged among the colonial powers has generally taken a different path than that in the countries of southern and central Europe (Italy, Greece, and the successors to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires). In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism. In the successor states of continental Europe, on the other hand, anthropologists often joined with folklorists and linguists in the nationalist/nation-building enterprise. Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of the nation through museums and other forms of public education. In this scheme, Russia occupied a middle position. On the one hand, it had a large Asian region of highly distinct, pre-industrial, often non-literate peoples, similar to the situation in the Americas; on the other hand, Russia also participated to some degree in the nationalist discourses of Central and Eastern Europe. After the Revolution of 1917, anthropology in the USSR and later the Soviet Bloc countries were highly shaped by the need to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.

The emergence of paleoanthropology, a scientific discipline which draws on the methodologies of paleontology, physical anthropology and ethnology, among other disciplines, and increasing in scope and momentum from the mid-20th century, continues to yield further insights into human origins, evolution, genetic and cultural heritage, and perspectives on the contemporary human predicament as well.

 

III. Give synonyms to the underlined words:

§ earlier thinkers and their forebears;

§ to focus disproportionately;

§ broaddomains;

§ to emerge from;

§ to behave in accordance with;

§ tended to subscribe to;

§ to differentiate;

§ to frame cultural critiques;

§ the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures;

§ to draw on

IV. Look through these words and expressions and provide their Ukrainian equivalents:

· "anthropological" and "ethnological" persuasion;

· reproducible and falsifiable experiments;

· cross-cultural comparisons;

· to reevaluate with an eye;

· academic disciplines began to differentiate;

· emphasis on cross-cultural comparison;

· to be highly shaped

 

V. Find English equivalents for the following:

¨ еволюціонувати;

¨ виводити загальні закони;

¨ наголос на ретельному вивченні контексту;

¨ теорія культурологічної відносності;

¨ масштаб дослідження;

¨ обрати інший шлях;

¨ документальне підтвердження народної культури;

¨ використовувати;

¨ скрутне/неприємне становище

 

VI. Explain the expressions and sentences in other words:

o an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment;

o to be closely resembling the modern disciplines;

o the basis for the "culture concept";

o natural phenomena;

o disproportionately;

o to study local traditions with an emphasis on understanding particular individuals, events and eras;

o to broaden the scope of investigation;

o to take a different path;

o predicament


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