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📌 HISTORICAL PARTICULARISM – FRANZ BOAS • Reaction against evolutionism & comparative method • Rejects universal laws of cultural evolution • Each culture is unique and must be studied independently 📌 HISTORICAL vs COMPARATIVE METHOD • Comparative method → uses similarities to build general laws • Historical method → slow, detailed study of local cultures • Warns against superficial comparisons & conjectures 📌 CORE ASSUMPTIONS • Culture is shaped by multiple causes, not single factors • Cultural traits must be understood in historical context • Similar traits ≠ same origin 📌 THREE FACTORS EXPLAINING CULTURE (Boas) 1️⃣ Environmental conditions 2️⃣ Psychological factors 3️⃣ Historical connections 📌 CONTINUITY OF DISTRIBUTION • Common traits among neighboring tribes suggest contact • Used to trace historical connections • Must be applied cautiously to avoid speculation 📌 VIEW ON CULTURAL CHANGE • “Primitive cultures” are not static • Apparent stability due to lack of historical perspective • Cultures change slowly but continuously • Whole cultural complex never remains permanent 📌 AIM OF HISTORICAL METHOD • Discover inner dynamics of cultural change • Focus on: – Why change occurred – How culture took a particular direction • Explains process, not just events 📌 DIFFUSION IN HISTORICAL PARTICULARISM • Cultures develop through interaction • Diffusion via: – Intermarriage – War – Trade – Migration – Slavery • Similar traits often due to borrowing, not independent invention 📌 SIGNIFICANCE ✔ Foundation of cultural relativism ✔ Emphasis on fieldwork & empiricism ✔ End of speculative anthropology ✔ Culture-specific explanations 📌CONCLUSION ➡️ Historical Particularism explains culture as a product of unique historical processes rather than universal evolutionary stages.

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