Boas
True or False: Neo-evolutionists opposed the Boas school.
True
True or false: Powell stated that all people can meet the standards of the current culture
False
What is defined as the idea that cultural traits spread from a few central civilizations?
Diffusionism
Why did Franz Boas consider leaving his home country of Germany?
Anti-Semitism
What are Powell’s three grand stages of human culture?
Savagery, Barbarism, and Civilization
What limb did Powell lose in the civil war?
His right arm
What is the name of the beliefs where a group has a symbolic relationship with an animal, plant or natural object?
Totemism
What did Powell believe to be the greatest intellectual achievement of civilization?
Discovering how the universe works and man harnessing these powers
What stage of civilization did Powell and McGee add onto the three of savagery, barbarism, and civilization?
Enlightenment
Boas observed that the Kwakiutl tribe demonstrated an intermediate condition between which two social system structures?
Matriarchy and patriarchy
Why did Powell compare babies to animals?
Babies possess no knowledge and opinions at birth and therefore are closer to animals than humans
Jesse Walter Fewkes, Otis T. Mason, and Walter Hough were known as what group of early anthropologists based in Washington, D.C?
The Washingtonians
How did Franz Boas change the way people looked at race?
He minimized the importance of race as a determinant of human behavior and challenged beliefs of racial inferiority. He stressed that differences in behaviors were cultural, not biological.
What justification does Powell use for the fact that humanity has improved throughout history?
He states that these changes can be directly perceived
The “Southwest German” school of philosophy drew a sharp line between which two branches of learning?
Nomothetic and Idiographic