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collected by others – usually
missionaries, traders, explorers, or
colonial officials – this earned them
their current sobriquet of "arm-chair
anthropologists".
After witnessing such a broad
development of human society, we
now have the knowledge that
cultures change at different rates due
to environmental causes, economic
resources and educational
development
Today ethnography continues to dominate socio-
cultural anthropology. Nevertheless, many
contemporary socio-cultural anthropologists have
rejected earlier models of ethnography which they claim
treated local cultures as "bounded" and "isolated".
These anthropologists continue to concern themselves
with the distinct ways people in different locales
experience and understand their lives, but they often
argue that one cannot understand these particular ways
of life solely from a local perspective; they instead
combine a focus on the local with an effort to grasp
larger political, economic, and cultural frameworks that
impact local lived realities.