Franz Boas believed that anthropologists
a. should develop theories using the written reports of missionaries, in particular.
b. should avoid living with the people they study so as not to influence them.
c. should gather more factual information about other cultures by conducting fieldwork.
d. All of these are true of Boas.
Question 2
Which of these is NOT a criticism made by Boas (and others) of the unilineal evolutionists?
a. They ignored the importance of Biblical understandings of culture.
b. They were ethnocentric.
c. There does not seem to be a single line of cultural development.
d. The evolutionists were armchair anthropologists who did not collect their own data.
Summary of Nursing Theories
Some scientists believed that langur infanticide was influenced by human disturbance.
Competing Theories of Emotion
By age 3, children develop scripts for common events such as eating at a restaurant.
Examples of Scientific Theories
Digital illustration of a fish that was believed to have become extinct during the Cretaceous Period