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The language is spoken in the most countries in the world.
English
This scholar is credited as the "Father of American anthropology” he established the 4-fields approach to anthropology and used the concept of “historical particularism” to reject racism.
Franz Boaz
The "father of interpretivist anthropology" who coined terms including "thick description," and "models of" and "models for" reality.
Clifford Geertz
An explanation of how the universe works.
Cosmology
A subsentence system that relies on wild plant and animal food resources already available in the environment.
Foraging
(Hunting and Gathering)
What language is spoken by the most people in the world as their "mother tongue?"
Chinese
This scholar pioneered the documentation of the folklore of American South and Caribbean and helped support Black cultural arts, music, and literature.
Zora Neale Hurston
"Father of Sociology" who studied concepts such as "anomie" or alienation linked to suicide in France.
Emile Durkheim
The belief that plants, animals, inanimate objects, and even natural phenomena like weather have a spiritual or supernatural element.
Animism
A social and economic system based on the raising and herding of livestock.
Pastoralism
The study of the intersection and interaction of language and culture.
Sociolinguistics
This scholar developed the use of participant observation as a methodology for how to conduct research through their own research among the Pacific Island peoples.
Bronislaw Malinowski
British scholar, who describes
the process of cultural change as a dialectic of
“structure and agency.”
Anthony Giddens
A form of religious practice in which individuals are believed to have the ability to communicate with and interact with spiritual or supernatural dimensions.
Shamanism
Cultivation of plants for food consumption without the use of mechanized tools or the use of animals to pull plows.
Horticulture
There are approximately how many actively spoken languages in the world?
7,000
This scholar advocated for "public anthropology" to share ideas of anthropology beyond universities to the public through journalism and media. Influenced American ideas of feminism, sexuality, and childcare through this public work.
Margaret Mead
French scholar who coined the terms "habitus," and "social capital."
Pierre Bourdieu
The belief in an impersonal supernatural force that permeates the universe.
Animatism
The worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas within and across national borders.
Globalization
The concept that the language we use shapes the way we see and perceive the world around us.
Linguistic Determinism
[Will also accept Linguistic Relativity: The concept that people who speak different languages perceive and think about the world differently than one another.
This scholar established new Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley and connected archaeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology in the study of Native American people and languages.
Alfred Krober
Anthropologist of religion, ritual, and cultural performance. Famous ideas include "communitas," "liminality," and studies of performance of idendity.
Victor Turner
The blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.
Syncretism
Term/phrase used by anthropologist Marshall Sahlins to describe how foraging societies were able to provide for themselves in as little as 15-20 hours of work per week.
“Original Affluent Society”