ANTH496FA2007TESTOne

ANTH 496 EXAM I on Monday October 8, 2007


1 The phrase "the collection of ethnographic facts through direct fieldwork must precede the defvelopment of cultural theories" sounds like it was associated with:
Herbert Spencer
Edward B. Tylor.
Lewis Henry Morgan. 
Franz Boas. 

2 According to Davies & Piero, Grafton Elliot Smith (1871-1937) and William J. Perry (1887-1949) believed that all cultures on earth originated in:
Armenia. 
Cahokia.
Egypt. 
Stonehenge. 

3 According to the Guidebook, the following statement was made by ____: "Culture, consisting as it does
of mental constructs, is not directly observable. It cannot therefore constitute the empirical data of any
discipline."
Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960).
Franz Boas (1858-1942). 
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917).
Walter W. Taylor (1913-1997).

4 Raymond Dart (1893-1989) was a 31-year old anatomist when he discovered the australopithecine
which is now called:
Zinjanthropus boisei.
Lucy.
The "Taung" baby.
The Toumai skull.

5 For L.A. White & B. Dillingham, an ethnological theory which is "particularizing and non-temporal" is:
History.
Evolution.
Ethnography.
Structural-Functional.

6 "In the history of anthropology, the name Pitt Rivers [1827-1900] is indissolubly linked to:
early forensic research in England.
archaeological research.
museums.
All-of-the-above!

7 M. Mead (1901-1978) received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University based on her Samoan field work in the 1920s.
TRUE
FALSE

8 E. B. Tylor (1832-1917) was one of the first anthropologists to use statistics for comparative studies. 
TRUE
FALSE

9 The phrase "If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public
school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools" was made by Franz Boas (1858-1942).
TRUE
FALSE

10 Iy was pointed out in the Guidebook that the recognition of Boucher de Perthes' [1783-1868] thesis marked a new era because it implies that culture dates back to the Pleistocene.
TRUE
FALSE

11 The term 'eugenics,' which derives from the Greek stem meaning 'good in birth,' was coined by Francis Galton [1822-1911], a cousin of Charles Darwin.
TRUE
FALSE

12 Franz Boas (1858-1942) believed that "statistical laws" (like the "laws of physics") could be found for anthropological matters.
TRUE
FALSE