Unit 1 Flashcards
1
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Louis Leakey & Mary Leakey
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- together discovered Australopithecus skull, Mary nicknamed it “dear boy” after Beatles song playing at the time
- both first to use radiometric dating
2
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Richard Leakey
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- Louis and Mary Leakey’s son
* found an almost complete Homo Erectus skeleton
3
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what does the habilis in homo habilis mean
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handyman
4
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what does erectus in homo erectus mean
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walks upright
5
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Franz Boas
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• believed in cultural relativism; two cultures cannot be compared, each culture stands on its own
6
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Napoleon Chagnon
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- studied the yanomamo people in venezuela
- gave the people goods such as axes and machetes and vaccinated them for deadly diseases
- was criticized however, as this only further enabled their violence and vaccinations made them sick because they were already immune
- also accused of manipulating data
7
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Richard Lee
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- studied and lived with the Dobe Ju’/hoansi of Southern Africa for almost forty years
- found that their people insult and belittle each other so nobody becomes arrogant or cocky
8
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Noam Chomsky
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• believed all people were born with the ability to speak
9
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Edward Sapir
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10
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linguistic anthropology
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compares the similarities and differences of language structures so they can understand how languages are related and how people migrated in the past
