Anthropology puzzles
Across
- 6. Bastian was a German theorist of psychic unity who believed that a few fundamental ideas were the building blocks of culture.
- 7. generally adopted by modern anthropologists
- 8. its magical trick is to make its assumptions appear natural and true
- 9. Represent previous stages of human development
- 12. of cultural particularities is an important arm of anthropology
- 16. a British anthropologist, whose Primitive Culture (1871) is among the most influential books ever written in its field.
- 17. replaced universal laws and emphasizes specific histories of societies
- 19. is a key aspect of Boas’ theoretical position
- 20. is a growth and not a manufacture
- 23. is a theory of cultural progression first espoused by early anthropologists and social theorists like L.H. Morgan
- 24. provides a lens through which we interpret the world
Down
- 1. may be divided to 3 sub-periods respectively, the older, the middle and the later period
- 2. has been increased and perfected by a series of successive arts introduced at long intervals of time
- 3. balances out various interests and concedes to each class as much as consists with the good of the rest
- 4. shifted the concept of culture from a synonym for civilization to a plural sense
- 5. proposed to trace the development of interventions and discoveries but considered them subordinate to the development of primary institutions.
- 10. reflect a faith is science and belief that knowledge will yield progress
- 11. was based on the old testament book of Genesis (Morgan’s “Mosaic cosmogony”)
- 13. should have a goal to identify social “organs” and describe their functioning
- 14. persue the more ambitions schema of discovering the laws and the history of the evolution of human society
- 15. are the dynamic changes in society that may be observed at the present time.
- 18. is a domain where mostly no historical facts are available except those that may be revealed by archeological study.
- 21. referred not only to technological progress but also to moral development.
- 22. gradual accumulation of experimental knowledge