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What does the film “The Shackles of Tradition” show us about Franz Boas’s early life and early scientific career?

What do we learn from the film “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness” about Melville J. Herskovits’s background and personality? 

Sherry Ortner argues that

Michel Foucault, although not an anthropologist, has been influential in anthropology because

Lévi-Strauss’s anthropology is derived from

According to Sally Slocum’s critique

Radcliffe-Brown advocated social anthropology as a synchronic rather than a diachronic science — that is, a study

Which of the following is associated with the post-World War II Cold War era in the United States?

As we see in the film “Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard: Strange Beliefs,” what are some of the roles played by Zande witchcraft when it comes to the management of human motivations and micro-politics? 

Marvin Harris’s theoretical approach to anthropology is called: