ANTH 2051 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unilineal Evolution, Social Darwinism, Social Evolution

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Anth 2051 / study guide for exam 1: the great chain of being a belief about the order of the natural world as created by the. Flood detailed in the bible: lyell"s uniformitarianism a geological theory positing that the earth"s physical features result from steady, gradual processes. Favored races would inevitably supplant the unfavorable ones through the process of. The movement climaxed with the end of wwii: how did boas revolutionize 19th. Speculative evolution based on the contextualized and biased reports from missionaries, soldiers, and colonial administrators: what was malinowski"s contribution to cultural anthropology, he changed the way of anthropology. Wrote argonauts fo the western pacific, 4 yrs in trobiand islands. Symbolic anthropology (1960s-70s) the culture of a people is an ensemble of texts . , which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong . Margaret mead"s coming of age in samoa principle of defamiliarization.