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Anthropologists
YGK These Anthropologists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Founder of modern anthropology and professor at Columbia who trained Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston | Franz Boas |
| Groups studied by Franz Boas on Baffin Island and Vancouver Island | Inuits and Kwakiutl |
| The gift-giving ceremony described by Franz Boas in The Mind of Primitive Man | Potlatch |
| Author of Coming of Age in Samoa who studied adolescence on the island of Ta’u | Margaret Mead |
| The scholar who challenged Mead's findings in The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead | Derek Freeman |
| Three New Guinea tribes studied by Margaret Mead in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies | Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli |
| Author of Patterns of Culture who described a society’s culture as “personality writ large” | Ruth Benedict |
| The study of Japanese culture written by Ruth Benedict for the U.S. government during WWII | The Chrysanthemum and the Sword |
| The circular gift exchange system in the Trobriand Islands described by Malinowski | Kula ring |
| Polish-born author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific | Bronisław Malinowski |
| Malinowski’s work that argued the Oedipus complex was not universal | Sex and Repression in Savage Society |
| Anthropologist who did fieldwork with the Nambikwara of Brazil and wrote The Savage Mind | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| The tetralogy about world mythology by Lévi-Strauss that includes The Raw and the Cooked | Mythologiques |
| The methodology pioneered by Lévi-Strauss based on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure | Structuralism |
| The book in which Clifford Geertz expounded his views on symbolic anthropology | The Interpretation of Cultures |
| Clifford Geertz’s term for analyzing behavior within its social context | Thick description |
| The essay in which Geertz describes a Balinese cockfight as a symbolic display of masculinity | “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” |
| The founder of structural functionalism in anthropology | Alfred Radcliffe-Brown |
| The school of anthropology that focuses on identifying social groups and defining relationships between people | Structural functionalism |
| Scottish anthropologist and author of The Golden Bough | James Frazer |
| The gift Aeneas gives to Proserpine in the Aeneid that titles Frazer's book | The Golden Bough |
| The name of the balsa-wood raft Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the Pacific in 1947 | Kon-Tiki |
| The Incan sun god after whom the Kon-Tiki raft was named | Kon-Tiki Viracocha (Viracocha) |
| The material used by Heyerdahl to build the Ra and Ra II to cross the Atlantic | Papyrus |
| The primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania | Jane Goodall |
| The national park where Jane Goodall conducted her research with chimpanzees | Gombe Stream National Park |
| The anthropologist Jane Goodall first worked with at Olduvai Gorge | Louis Leakey |
| The key discovery Jane Goodall made about chimpanzees' abilities | Tool use (or fishing for termites with grass) |
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