Powerpoint Slides Week 4 pt. 1 Flashcards
(46 cards)
Franz Boas and his students deemphasize __________ between separate _________.
boundaries’
societies
______ ______ and his students deemphasize boundaries between separate societies.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas focused on _______ and ____________ of cultural practices from one society to its neighbors.
diffusion
dissemination
_____ _____ focused on diffusion and dissemination of cultural practices from one society to its neighbors.
Franz Boas
_____ _____ noted agency in indigenous groups to change cultural traditions.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas noted ______ in indigenous groups to change cultural traditions.
agency
Franz Boas and his students attacked ________ __________.
unilineal evolutionism
_____ _____ and his students attacked unilineal evolutionism.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas called his approach “the _________ ______.”
historical method
_____ _____’s “historical method” was used to combat the concept of biological “race.”
Franz Boas
Franz Boas’s “_________ _______” was used to combat the concept of biological “race.”
historical method
Franz Boas’s “historical method” was used to combat the concept of biological “_____”
race
Franz Boas suggested that if people, practices, or artifacts could move across social boundaries, then the social boundaries could not be ___________.
impermeable
19th century ideas about the supposedly firm boundaries around “_____” were vulnerable to critique.
races
19th century ideas about the supposedly firm boundaries around “races” were _________ to critique.
vulnerable
Boas had many influential students and followers, including?
(1) Margaret Mead
(2) Ruth Benedict
(3) Edward Sapir
Franz Boas and his students emphasized the importance of _______ _________.
cultural relativism
______ _____ and his students emphasized the importance of cultural relativism.
Franz Boas
The early encounters between anthropologists and Native Americans contributed to the development of the discipline of anthropology being intertwined with the history of _________ (and Euro-American) _________.
European
imperialism
The early encounters between ____________ and _______ _________ contributed to the development of the discipline of anthropology being intertwined with the history of European (and Euro-American) imperialism.
anthropologists
Native Americans
__________ has been the most powerful contributor to intercultural knowledge and important philosophical complication the world has ever seen.
Ethnography
What is neocolonialism?
The persistence of profound social and economic entanglements linking former colonial territories to their former colonial rulers despite political sovereignty.
Most of the societies studied by anthropologists, even 100 years ago, had been affected by the presence of others, especially _________.
Europeans
Because of ___________ new identities and social forms have been created by indigenous groups.
neocolonialism
