Lewis Henry Morgan was a lawyer and banker of the late nineteenth century whose principal scholarship in anthropology was concerned with __________.
A. human physical variation
B. systems of human kinship
C. language acquisition
D. archaeology of the American Indians
Question 2
Edward B. Tylor and other eighteenth-century thinkers asserted that primitives around the world would eventually evolve through the stages of barbarism to become civilized like Europeans,
but that these primitives would need some help from the civilized world to reach this ultimate, ideal stage. This perception that Western society is the center of the civilized world and that non-Western societies are inherently inferior is called __________.
A. logical negativism
B. logical positivism
C. ethnocentrism
D. devolution
Henry Walter Bates
Biology Forums Topic Display (2012 - Late 2014)
A nineteenth-century Japanese portrait of Commodore Matthew Perry, who “opened up” Japan in 1854.
The “Flat Head” (Chinook) Indians acquired their name through shaping in infancy, as shown in a diag
Apollo Belvedere (detail), Roman copy after a 4th-century BCE Greek original.
Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door.