ANTH296FA2004TESTOne

ANTH 296 EXAM I on October 4, 2004.


1 Long before F. Boas [1858-1942] did his ethnographic field work, anthropological research among Native Americans had been conducted by:
Henry Schoolcraft.
Lewis Henry Morgan.
Adolph Bandalie.
All-of-the-above!

2 It was written in the Guidebook that "In the history of anthropology, the name _______ is indissolubly linked to a museum, and to the evolutionary principle of its organization.
John Lubbock.
Franz Boas
A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers.
Frederick Ward Putnam.

3 The Guidebook pointed out that the Scottish Enlightenment was an important intellectual movement and, in particular, _______was an important part of the intellectual interests of the day.
anthropology
political issues
natural history and geology
geology

4 Urbanowicz (and others) believes that today's anthropology can be traced from ideas which came from:
Exploration & Evolution.
Evolution & Enlightenment.
Enlightenment & Exploration.
Exploration, Enlightenment, and Evolution.

5 According to Davies and Piero, in Britain "high diffusionism" was the formula used by:
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith.
Sir James George Frazer.
William Perry
Both Smith and Perry.

6 The distinguished novelist Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) had an approach to science and creativity that is very similar to that of:
Charles F. Urbanowicz.
Denise Sherkijian.
Jacob Bronowski.
All-of-the-above!

7 Langess wrote that "Tylor introduced the term culture into English" and it was ____ who pointed out that :culture" had a plural form.
John Wesley Powell.
Louis Henry Morgan.
Franz Boas
Robert Lowie.

8 It was pointed out in your Guidebook, that Cuvier (1769-1832) was the founder of the science of the study of fossils, namely paleontology.
TRUE
FALSE

9 Frank Cushing (1857-1900) was a famous American anthropologist who worked in the South Pacific.
TRUE
FALSE

10 Edward B. Tylor (1832-1917) was never interrested in any type of "statistical" (and cross-cultural) research for anthropology.
TRUE
FALSE

11 The "Enlightenment" has been commonly defined as a period that emphasized the exercise of enlightened reason.
TRUE
FALSE

12 Louis Agasiz (1807-1873) was a major naturalist in the United States and became an ardent supporter of Darwin's theory after his own trip to the Galápagos islands.
TRUE
FALSE

13 According to the Guidebook (and other sources), the estimated population of California in 2002 was 35,116,033.
TRUE
FALSE