Anthropologists I: Boas, Mead, Benedict Flashcards

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Father of American Anthropology who trained Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and even Zora Neale Hurston at Columbia.

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Franz Boas

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Tribe on Baffin Island which Boas studied

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Inuit

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Tribe on Vancouver Island, where Potlach was practiced, which Boas studied

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Kwakiutl (Now known as kwakawakawak or something)

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Expedition planned and executed by Boas to study the natives of Alaska and Siberia, named after the industrialist who funded it.

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Morris Jessup North Pacific Expedition

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Hall in the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) where Boas exhibited his studies from the north pacific expedition

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Northwest Coast Indian Hall

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1887 Essay by Boas in which he distinguished between physical and historical sciences, and where he argued that geography must be historical.

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The Study of Geography

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Racist pseudoscientific Idea that was famous opposed by Boas

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Cepahlic Index / Phrenology (Head shape determines intelligence)

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Book by Boas in which he rallied against racist pseudoscientific ideas such as white supremacy. This is his most famous work.

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Mind of the Primitive Man

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Essay by Boas in which Boas debunked Brinton’s claim that a certain feature of Native American Languages was evidence of their racial inferiority (not fully evolved yet).

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On Alternating Sounds

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Book by Boas made up from his notes on the Baffin Island Inuits

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The Central Eskimo

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Controversial American Anthropologist, a student of Boas who was a proponent of the Sexual Revolution.

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Margaret Mead

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Book in which Mead examined the differences in gender and sexual conventions in the Mundugumor, Arapesh, and Tchambuli tribes in Papua New Guinea.

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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies

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Most famous book by Mead where she examined the adolescents of the island of Ta’u.

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Coming of Age in Samoa

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Book in which Derek Freeman argued that the people of the island of Ta’u duped Mead.

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The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead

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Book following a transcript of the conversations between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead

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A Rap on Race

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Autobiography of Margaret Mead

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Blackberry Winter

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Book detailing the cultural transformation of the Manus Islanders following World War II by Mead

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New Lives for Old

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Book by Ruth Benedict detailing the religion of a certain southwest Indian group

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Zuni Mythology

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Book by Ruth Benedict in which she studies the difference between guilt culture in America and shame culture in Japan

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Chrysanthemum and the Sword

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Work in which Ruth Benedict utilized studies by Reo Fortune to compare the Zuni, Kwakiutl, and Dobu cultures using the Nietzschean concept of Apollonian and Dionysian. This is her most famous work.

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Patterns of Culture

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Pamphlet by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish in which Benedict dispels racism. It was given to troops during World War II.

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The Races of Mankind

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Book by Ruth Benedict collecting stories from a certain Indian group in the southwest, close to the pueblo.

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Tales of the Cochiti Indians

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Term used by Ruth Benedict to describe culture

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