Author Question: Franz Boas is the undisputed father of four-field U.S. anthropology. One of his most important and ... (Read 76 times)

mpobi80 · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Franz Boas is the undisputed father of four-field U.S. anthropology. One of his most important and enduring contributions to anthropology was

A. the field's earliest example of multitimed and multisited ethnography.
B. providing evidence that both biology and culture are susceptible to evolutionary forces, thus providing a framework for the comparative method.
C. stressing the relevance of independent invention in human cultural history.
D. showing that human biology is plastic, and that biology (including race) does not determine culture.
E. expanding the local ethnographic focus to include a regional perspective.

Question 2

The view that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, has its own distinctive history, and that social forms (such as totemism in different societies) that might look similar are not comparable because of their different histories, is known as

A. historical particularism.
B. cultural generalism.
C. the Boasian approach.
D. structural functionalism.
E. comparative functionalism.