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
The Nightmare, 1781, by Henry Fuseli, Swiss, 1741–1825
The “Flat Head” (Chinook) Indians acquired their name through shaping in infancy, as shown in a diag
Early in the twentieth century, when malnutrition was common, companies such as this one advertised
The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David. The eighteenth-century French painter David portrayed ...
Early 20th century warming
Morgan’s test-cross analysis of genetic linkage between autosomal genes