Terms
What is genealogy?
She's known for studying chimpanzees in Tanzania
Who is Jane Goodall?
Margaret Mead
Who is a cultural anthropologist?
Functionalism studies how societies are made of these three aspects
What are institutions, rules, and norms?
The perspective that seeks to understand the hidden patterns of thought found within all human societies
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while the perspective that seeks to understand how the basic components of society make that society function
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What are structuralism and functionalism?
It's the term for a concept, studied by cultural anthropologist Sherry Ortner, that focuses on topics such as women's contributions to anthropology
What is feminist anthropology?
As a naturalist, Charles Darwin studied fossils to propose the idea of evolution through this two-word term
What is natural selection?
Louis Leakey and Mary Douglas Leakey
Who are physical anthropologists (paleoanthropologists)?
It's the term, associated with Franz Boas, for the concept that the customs, norms, and values of a culture should be understood from within its own context
What is cultural relativism?
It's the term, developed by linguist Noam Chomsky, for the idea that humans have an innate ability to acquire language
What is universal grammar?
As a cultural anthropologist living among peoples of Oceania, Margaret Mead would have relied upon ethnology and this research method that is specifically about living a culture's everyday experiences
What is participant observation?
Thomas Dale Stewart
Who is a physical anthropologist (forensic anthropologist)?
They're ceremonial events that marks the passage from one status to another; all cultures contain versions of these events
What are rites of passage?
It's the term for when two or more cultures in contact with one another exchange artifacts, customs, and/or beliefs
What is acculturation?
This archaeologist was an Egyptologist who invented a method for ordering artifacts by age
Who is Sir Flinders Petrie?
Franz Boas
Who is a cultural anthropologist?
It's a general term that covers behaviour-changing factors such as erosion, natural disasters, or structures built by humans
What is physical environment?
It's the concept, worked on by cultural anthropologist Marvin Harris, that material conditions (such as land and technology) influence how a society functions
What is cultural materialism?
This forensic anthropologist was renowned for his knowledge of anatomy (the study that describes living things' body structures) and osteology (the study of bones' structure and function)
Who is Thomas Dwight?
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
Who is a physical anthropologist (archaeologist)?
It's a term for describing changes to human behaviour and/or culture because of assimilation, acculturation, and other international integration
What is globalization?