Anthropology: Ch 13-15

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Across
  1. 1. the realization and understanding of a set of relationships. An addition to knowledge
  2. 3. promoting the passing on of one's genes by aiding the survival or reproduction of one's close kin
  3. 5. an outdated concept of cultural evolution that claims all societies pass through the same series of stages,from savagery to civilization
  4. 6. a synonym for sociobiology
  5. 9. a synonym for unilinear evolutionism
  6. 11. the idea that human behaviors have a biological basis with minimal influence from culture
  7. 12. the idea that human behaviors are almost totally the result of learned cultural information, with few or no instinctive responses
  8. 13. a synonym for sociobiology
  9. 16. the maximum population of a species allowed by existing environmental conditions and resources
  10. 17. acting to benefit others while disregarding one's own welfare
  11. 18. when knowledge of a cultural trait in another society stimulates the invention of a similar trait
  12. 20. rapid and extensive culture change generated from within a society
  13. 21. any of a group of diseases, of various causes, that are newly appeared or rapidly expanding their range in the human species
Down
  1. 2. the eating of human flesh from members of one's own society
  2. 4. the American school of cultural evolution that rejected any general theory of culture change but believed that each society could be understood only in reference to its particular history
  3. 7. ("cultural circle") a school of cultural evolution originating in Germany that proposed a small number of early cultural centers from which cultural traditions spread in ever-widening circles to encompass and influence other societies
  4. 8. an outdated concept of cultural evolution that claims major cultural advances were made by one or a few societies and spread there to all other societies
  5. 10. the scientific study that examines evolutionary explanations within species
  6. 12. tension among the wives of one man in polygynous societies, often caused by the differing statuses of those wives
  7. 14. rapid diffusion of cultural items either by choice of the receiving society or by force from a more dominant society
  8. 15. the synthesis of existing religious beliefs and practices with new ones introduced from the outside
  9. 19. new creations. The application of discovered knowledge