A Cultural Anthropologist Who Spends a Year or So Living

question 16

Multiple Choice

A cultural anthropologist who spends a year or so living with, talking to, and observing people whose customs he or she is studying is known as a(n) __________.

• A) ethnographer
• B) archaeologist
• C) ethnohistorian
• D) linguistic anthropologist

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Definitions:

Salpêtrière

A historic hospital in Paris that played a significant role in the development of neurology and psychiatry.

Charcot

Refers to Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist known for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, and for whom Charcot's disease (a.k.a. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS) is named.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist best known as the founder of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology.

Rest Cure

A medical treatment for mental health issues, prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, involving prolonged bed rest and isolation.