The theory that beliefs and behaviors can only be understood in the context of their own culture.
What is cultural relativism?
100
Geological concept of layering.
What is stratigraphy?
100
Known as the Father of American Anthropology
Who is Franz Boas?
100
The new head of our illustrious anthropology department here at the University of Connecticut
Who is Dr. Pamela Erickson?
200
The study of production, transmission and reception of sound
What is phonetics?
200
The process of observing a culture from the local viewpoint
What is emic approach?
200
The two major movements in archaeological theory?
What is processual and post-pocessual archaeology?
200
Wrote the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species"
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
Known for discovering the first fossilized chimpanzee remains and authoring the paper "The Revolution that Wasn't"
Who is Dr. Sally McBrearty
300
The concept that within each ethnomedical system curative behaviors follow logically from the beliefs of disease origin.
What is theory of disease causation?
300
The belief that things in nature have a spiritual presence
What is animism?
300
Method used to create stone tools.
What is flint-knapping?
300
Famous for her work "Coming of Age in Samoa"
Who is Margret Mead?
300
In charge of the UCONN Zooarchaeology lab campus
Who is Dr. Natalie Munro
400
The theory explaining body size and proportions in various climate zones.
What is Allen's rule?
400
Performed by an anthropologist to create a full narrative of a particular culture, usually involving participant observation
What is an ethnography?
400
Stone tool industry known to be used by Neanderthals
What is the Mousterian Industry?
400
Famous for helping to develop structural anthropology and arguing that the characteristics of the human mind are universal.
Who is Claude Lévi-Strauss?
400
Recently published in "Science" his paper on paleolithic stone tools proves that technological innovation occurred throughout the Old World, not only at a single origin
Who is Dr. Dan Adler?
500
The Lambda Officers who labored tirelessly to make this lovely game of Jeopardy for y'all. Happy National Anthropology Day!
Who are the wonderful Becca and Colin?
500
Residence when the married couple's location has no connection to either family.
What is neolocal?
500
The average number of bones in the adult human body?
What is 206
500
Archaeological theorist known for processional archaeology in the 1960's and onward.
Who is Louis Binford?
500
Director of UCONN's new experimental anthropology lab