Based on chapters 2-4 of Mirror for Humanity by Conrad Phillip Kottak
Challenge: Can you solve this crossword puzzle without consulting Kottak's book?
| 2 | Signs whose meanings have no necessary or natural connection to what they represent; anthropologist Leslie White considered the ability to use them fundamental to culture |
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| 3 | The transmission of information about ourselves to others through expressions, stances, gestures, and movements |
| 4 | Feelings of disorientation and related reactions experienced in an unfamiliar culture, where familiar everyday cues are absent |
| 5 | The arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences |
| 6 | The stimulus-dependent, species-specific way in which nonhuman primates communicate |
| 8 | The tendency to regard one's own culture as superior and use its values to judge the behavior and beliefs of people from other cultures |
| 9 | A method of anthropological research that includes taking part in the events one is observing, describing, and analyzing |
| 1 | Long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, or other unit, usually based on repeated visits |
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| 7 | The learned, shared way of life passed on through enculturation, whose internalized rules guide people's thoughts and behavior |
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Conrad Phillip Kottak is an anthropologist and the author of several cultural anthropology textbooks, including Mirror for Humanity. His work explores cultural variation, globalization, and relationships between culture and social institutions.
Kottak has conducted research in Madagascar and Brazil.