The humanistic perspective is that there is an emphasis on the non-material knowledge. When studying culture, they use an insider’s perspective. This perspective insist that each human is unique, they see them as animals but a special kind of animal that requires special ways of analyzing. The scientific perspective puts emphasis on the material system of behavior. When using this perspective anthropologist tend to use an outsider’s perspective. People would have also been looked at as more of animals. The observations would have been linear, A determines B. As an example of how research would have been different is the understanding of women’s role in the culture. Humanistic perspective looks at the women’s perspective. They would have looked