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Anthropolgy MidTerm
Topics include basic Anthro terms and history.
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/03/2007

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Who is the founder of the American School of Anthropology?
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Lewis Henry Morgan, who made developments in ethnographic fieldwork during his study of the Iriqouis Indians.
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What is the importance of Darwinism? Contrasting with determinism?
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Discovery started the scientific revolution, reasoning over logic. Added to the already friction between science and religion.
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The anthropologists who combined Darwin's theories with early anthropological ideas are known as?
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Early evolutionists, famously E.B. Tylor and James G. Frazier.
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Who was E.B. Tyler?
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Early evolutionist, a quaker, and the first anthropologist to try and define culture in terms of science.
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Franz Boas promoted a new method of determining the complexity of culture known as...
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Ethnographic Fieldwork method, participant observation, going out and living with the culture you're studying.
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