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ethnoscience

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ethnoscience

Method of analysing cultural systems. In vogue in the USA in the late 1950s and 1960s, it was based on the componential analysis of structural linguistics. The aim was to operate in a foreign culture and ‘think like the indigenous people’ by considering a cultural system as a language and discovering the ‘grammatical rules’ of the system.

Results were hard to interpret and the method theoretically flawed; initial enthusiasm for it among anthropologists has now waned.



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Second, ethnoscience offers a view of culture as a cognitive system of shared beliefs and knowledge of shared rules that govern an individual's behavior.
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