Heroes and Villains
He argued for a scientific approach to studying culture that included cultural relativism.
Who was Franz Boas?
The closest living relative to the human species.
What is a chimpanzee?
The subfield of anthropology that deals with communication systems.
What is linguistic anthropology?
The belief in any personified diety or dieties.
What is theism?
These are the four subfields of anthropology.
What are biological, cultural, linguistic, and archaeology?
He explored cultural traits in terms of function.
Who is Branislaw Malinowski?
This is evidenced by tool use in chimpanzees and other learned behavioral traits in nonhuman animals.
What is animal culture?
This is the study of animal communication systems.
What is zoosemiotics?
The belief in a creator who does not interfere with the physical world.
What is Deism?
This is the study of spatial relationships between individuals.
What are proxemics?
This was the fictitious name given to a 13 year old girl who had been isolated for the majority of her life.
Who was "Genie"?
These are the biological stages on an individual animal's life.
What are life history traits?
This hypothesis assumes that language influences, or even determines, thoughts and perceptions.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
In this cosmology, one prays to animate and inanimate objects to will their behaviors.
What is animism?
This is the praxis of anthropology.
What is applied anthropology?
This English philosopher was the first to explore the concept of the social contract.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
Chimpanzees living in forest fragments and in close proximity to humans often must resort to this in order to feed their populations.
What is crop raiding?
This is the term for individual speech qualities.
What is parole?
The belief that all apects of the physical world are part and parcel of God.
What is pantheism?
This relates to kinship relationships that are connected by real or created blood relationships.
What are consinguinal relationships?
This exiled World War II German wasr criminal was responsible for the capture of the majority of chimpanzees that were eventually shipped to Europe and the United States.
Who was Franz Sitta?
This means to ascribe human traits on to nonhuman entities.
What is anthropomorphism?
He is known as the father of modern linguistics.
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
The belief in one nonpersonified energy that determines the behavior of all aspects of the physical universe.
What is animatism?
This relates to kinship relationships that are connected to marital relationships.