U2L1L2 Anthropologists

Much of Edward Sapir's life was dedicated to understanding the relationship between linguistics and anthropology.

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Richard Lee spent 4 decades doing fieldwork in Batswana and Namibia.

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• False

Marvin Harris is best known for his contributions to the structuralist perspective to anthropology.

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• False

Birute Galdikas has led the fight against logging in Indonesia which is destroying the natural habitat of orangutans.

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Sherry Ortner has done extensive research on the Samoan culture in the south pacific learning about their religion, social structure, and culture.

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Norm Chomsky is one of the world's leading linguists.

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Charles Darwin's most significant contribution was when he wrote The Communist Manifesto.

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• False

Jane Goodall is the world's foremost expert on orangutans.

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• False

Louis and Mary Leakey focused on early human origins and evolution by studying early human skeletons.

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• False

Margaret Mead believed that Samoan adolescents had experienced much higher degrees of anxiety than American adolescents.

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