Contributions of:

Question 1

Franz Boaz

Answer 1

He is originally from Germany, travelled to Canada in the late 1800s to study the indigenous people.
He introduced the idea of not judging other peoples cultures (anti- ethnocentrism) In Canada
Cultural relativism

Question 2

Margaret Mead

Answer 2

An influential and controversial study of Samoan adolescent girls.
Interested whether stress during adolescence was caused by adolescence was caused by adolescence itself or by societal pressure
Used participant observations and interviews in 1920s
(Did Some mistakes)

Question 3

Jane Goodall

Answer 3

• She left England to study chimpanzees in Tanzania
• She is now focused on the preservation of chimpanzees in the wild
• she spent over 45 years with the chimpanzees
• Leaned that chimpanzees and humans have a lot in common

Question 4

Richard lee

Answer 4

A Canadian anthropologist studied the san bushmen,

he was shocked because they had different cultural differences, however, he managed to adjust to their culture a bit.

Question 5

Bronisław Malinowski

Answer 5

A polish Anthropologist, Introduced the idea of functional theory: Every idea, belief, action or relationship in a culture is to meet the specific needs of the individuals

Question 6

Maxine Margolis

Answer 6

She was a North American researcher, and she believes in cultural materialism, because of the study of women that she did in the 1960s.

Question 7

Marvin Harris

Answer 7

Cultural materialism

Question 8

Dian Fossey

Answer 8

Dian Fossey believed that in order to study gorillas effectively she had to immerse herself with them in an effort to get them to accept her
She was an advocate for the gorillas who were being killed by poachers for their heads and hands. She was murdered in her cabin in Rwanda, December 1985.