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• Vasco da Gama was a famous explorer and navigator from Portugal.

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• Born: 1460, Sines, Portugal
• Died: 1524, Cochin, India
• Famous Achievement: First European to reach India by sea in 1498
• Significance: Opened direct maritime trade between Europe and Asia

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• Charlotte Perkins Gilman defined androcentrism
• She wrote about it in 1911.
• Her book is titled The Man-Made World.
• Androcentrism—the practice of placing a male perspective at the center of culture, history, and human experience

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• Term coined: "Cultural lag"
• Who: American sociologist William F. Ogburn
• Date: 1922
• Book: Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature
• Definition: The time it takes for non-material culture (values, laws) to catch up with rapid advances in material culture (technology)

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• The Sapir–Whorf theory relates language most directly to Language, thought, and perception.
• The idea was first expressed explicitly by 19th-century thinkers
• Founders: Wilhelm von Humboldt and Johann Gottfried Herder

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Franz Boas is regarded as the Father of sociocultural anthropology.

• German-American anthropologist (1858–1942)
• Born: July 9, 1858, Minden, Prussia (Germany)
• Died: December 21, 1942 (aged 84), New York City, U.S.

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• Anthropology is the scientific study of human beings.
• It covers all humans across time, including past, present, and future societies.