Sir James Frazer thought that science would replace religious beliefs
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Because of their different languages, English speakers tend to group objects in terms of common material, while Yucatec speakers tend to group items in terms of common shape
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Interpretive anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz approach the study of culture as
A. functional puzzles. B. underlying sets of rules that must be deciphered through the analysis of cultural patterns. C. a diachronic phenomenon. D. distinct from human psychology. E. a system of meaning.
A holistic approach to the study of humans means that anthropologists ______
a. concentrate only on the social customs of the group under study b. study all varieties of people and all aspects of their existence c. limit themselves to the study of religious leaders d. only study literate societies e. focus exclusively on the relationship between people and environment
Anthropology has always been concerned with how environmental forces influence humans, and how human activities affect the biosphere and the Earth itself. The 1950s through the 1970s witnessed the emergence of an area of study known as cultural ecology or ecological anthropology. This field
A. studied human-environment relations as cultural constructions and analyzed them as "texts." B. focused on how cultural beliefs and practices help human populations adapt to their environment. C. studied etic perspectives on human-environment relationships. D. is no longer relevant, because it dealt with research models that were either regional or local, but not global enough to account for the changes caused by climate change. E. has limited value in the present day, because it is not scientifically rigorous enough to address environmental problems.