Week 1

Question 1

Cultural anthropology

Answer 1

Focuses on cultures of the present and recent past

Question 2

Linguistic anthropology

Answer 2

The study of human language in the past and present

Question 3

Biological Anthropology

Answer 3

Focuses on human biology, including evolution and contemporary variability

Question 4

Archeology

Answer 4

the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifactsand other physical remains

Question 5

Applied anthropology

Answer 5

A field of anthropology in which the researcher uses knowledge or anthropological methods,theory, and perspectives to solve human problems.

Question 6

Unilinear Theory of Cultural Evolution

Answer 6

Every society started out in a stage of savagery, some progressed to barbarism, and others to civilization; now entirely discredited

Question 7

cultural relativism

Answer 7

The idea that cultures are equally valid and that every culture can be understood only in its own context

Question 8

Franz Boas

Answer 8

-Boas developed the concept of cultural relativism, which countered Morgan’s racism
* We cannot morally judge another culture and deem them inferior
-Encouraged his anthropology students to study Native Americans in the early 20th century as part of creating salvage ethnographies

Question 9

salvage ethnography

Answer 9

Fieldwork strategy developed by Franz Boas to rapidly collect cultural, material, linguistic, and biological information about U.S. Native populations being devastated by westward expansion.