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PBHS Anthropologists
NAQT Anthropologists
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Franz Boas | Prof at Columbia Univ.; trained Mead, Benedict, Hurston; often called founder of modern anthropology |
| Boas | Studied Inuits on Baffin Island and Kwakwaka wakw on Vancouver Island; |
| Boas | His "The Mind of Primitive Man" includes a gift-giving ceremony called "potlatch" |
| Margaret Mead | "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" studies in New Guinea |
| Mead | studied young girls on the island of Ta'u; "Coming of Age in Samoa" |
| Ruth Benedict | Colleague of Mead; "Patterns in Culture" |
| Benedict | described Japanese culture requested by U.S. Gov. in WWII in "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" |
| Bronislaw Malinowski; Polish-born | "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" and the use of magic in agriculture in "Coral Gardens and Their Magic" |
| Malinowski | opposed Sigmund Freud in "Sex and Repression in Savage Society" |
| Franz Boas (born in Germany) | Called the Father of American Anthropology |