Malinowski
Early Anthropologists
Anthropologists and their theories
Schools of Thought
Mixed Bag
100

Malinowski identified this many primary impulses/needs, which humans share with mammals.

Answer: What is 7?

100

Herodotus was an explorer from this civilization.

Answer: What is Greek?

100

She studied gender roles in Samoa.

Answer: Who is Margaret Mead?

100

The belief that one’s own culture is superior to others.

Answer: What is ethnocentrism?

100

The first wave of feminist anthropology focused on making women this in research.

Answer: What is visible?

200

Malinowski said humans use this to feel control of their own destiny.

Answer: What is religion?

200

This Venetian merchant travelled Asia for 24 years, documenting his encounters to help Europeans back home understand these cultures.

Answer: Who is Marco Polo?

200

This famous primatologist studied chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania.

Answer: Who is Jane Goodall?

200

This anthropologist coined the term 'rites of passage' and defined them by the three terms of separation, liminality, and reintegration.

Answer: Who is Arnold van Gennep?

200

This type of research involves living among a group to observe their daily life.

Answer: What is participant observation?

300

Malinowski identified the Commissariat as being responsible for this.

Answer: What is responsible for food?

300

This polymath thinker studied the Indian subcontinent and learned its languages, religions and cultures.

Answer: Who is al-Biruni?

300

This anthropologist emphasized cultural relativism through his work in the Canadian Arctic.

Answer: Who is Franz Boas?

300

This is the number of Cultural Universes, as identified by ethnographers.

Answer: What is 21?

300

This theory argues that culture is shaped by economic forces.

Answer: What is materialism?

400

Malinowski believed that all cultural practices serve a function to meet this.

Answer: What is human need?

400

This early anthropologist created trade connections which led to the establishment of the Silk Road

Answer: Who is Zhang Qian?

400

Claude Lévi‑Strauss is associated with this theory.

Answer: What is structuralism?

400

Infrastructure, Structure and Superstructure are the three main parts of this.

Answer: What is Cultural Materialism?

400

Ethnocentrism often leads to this negative outcome.

Answer: What is stereotyping?

500

Malinowski helped establish this major anthropological approach.

Answer: What is functionalism?

500

This person wrote the Rihlah (travels) which describes their 30 year, 120,000 km trip.

Answer: Who is Ibn Battuta?

500

He developed the concept of cultural evolutionism.

Answer: Who is Lewis Henry Morgan?

500

This anthropologist developed symbolic anthropology.

Answer: Who is Clifford Geertz?

500

The study of why humans are physically different from each other is a part of this branch of anthropology.

Answer: What is human variation?

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