ANTH296FA2004TESTTwo

ANTH 296 EXAM II on Wednesday November 10, 2004.


1 The Guidebook pointed out that "Postmodernism (Pomo) is an intellectual movement or orientation that
promotes itself as the antithesis of modernism. The term itself was introduced by____ in the late 1940s.
Anthropologists.
Archaeologists.
Culturologists.
Architects.

2 According to Langness, Clifford Geertz in interested in what he calls "explication" through:
analytical descriptions.
murky descriptions.
thick descriptions.
deep descriptions.

3 Langness has written that the "father" of scientific fieldwork in British Anthropology was:
Alfred Cort Haddon.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Derek Freeman.
Claude Lévi-Strauss.

4 Interesingly enough, Langness pointed out that A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) was one who argued for the total separation of ___________ and anthropology.
sociology
economic
history
psychology

5 Victor Turner and Mary Douglas have often described as "__________ anthropologists."
sympathetic anthropologists
interpretive anthropologists
symbolic
cultural

6 It has been written that Margaret Mead's description of Samoan life in the 1920s was:
a superb ethnography!
littered with errors
wrong on her portrayal of Samoa.
both "b + c" are correct.

7 According to D&P, it was Julian Steward who introduced the concept of "ecological anthropology" to the discipline with his 1955 publication of Theory of Culture Change.
TRUE
FAKSE

8 The "functionalism" o fBronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was founded on what he called the "the seven basic needs of man."
TRUE
FALSE

9 For Langness (and Urbanowica), "the true locus of culture is in the individual."
TRUE
FALSE

10 For years Robert Carneiro stood alone in his conviction that evolutionary theory as expounded by Spencer, Morgan, and Tylor was the beginning of the right track for a science of culture
TRUE
FALSE

11 Langness has written that the "father" of scientific fieldwork in British Anthropology was B. Malinowski.
TRUE
FALSE