As written in the Guidebook, if the history
of anthropology were to be made into a television miniseries, one of its
great moments would surely be set on the Sepik River in New Guinea in 1933
when Margaret Mead, starved for theoretical relevance after fieldwork with
the Arapesh and the Mundugumor, met her husband-to-be:
Luther Cressman.
Reo Fortune
Gregory Bateson
Edward Sapir.
2
Langness has written that the "father" of scientific
fieldwork in British Anthropology was
Derek Freeman.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Alfred Cort Haddon.
Claude Lévi-Strauss.
3
The phrase by Kardiner and Preble, namely "The
ability to understand very different kinds of people is often related to
an innate lack of set values and standards" was made in reference to:
Margaret Mead.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Ruth Benedict.
Emile Durkheim.
4
According to Davies & Piero, _____ was the
female anthropologist (who worked with Australian Aborigines in the 1930s)
who has achieved new prominence with the rise of feminist anthropology
and gender studies.
Valene Smith,
Beverly Chinas.
Hortense Powdermaker.
Phyllis Kaberry.
5
According to Jay Ruby (whom you saw in the Boas
video and whose words you read in the Guidebook), as anthropologists,
anthropological filmakers must:
be methodologically explicit.
explain their theoretical assumptions.
seek to make their films contribute to scholarly dialogue.
all-of-the-above are correct.
6
"And so for anthropology, you are studying not
just as an observer, but also as a participant; you are not just a member
of the audience, you are also on the stage." This was stated by:
Alfred Cort Haddon.
Edward Evans-Pritchard.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Derek Freeman.
7
Langness wrote that ______ wrote on invention
and culture change and his 1953 book entitled Innovation: The Basis
of Cultural Change "remains useful and stimulating to this day."
Clifford Geertz.
Homer G. Barnett.
George Peter Murdock.
Leslie A. White.
8
The phrase, that "the highest stage in moral
culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control
our thoughts...." was made by:
Reo Fortune.
Marcel Mauss.
Charles Darwin.
Alfred louis Kroeber.
9
The Guidebook (and lectures) pointed
out that the term "modernism" is drawn from the study of _____. Applied
to anthropology, it broadly refers to the years between the 1920s and the
mid-1970s.
literature
art
both literature and art
existentialism
10
Dominant theme(s) on behavior for a good part
of the 20th century were:
Freudianism.
Boasism.
Behaviorism.
all-of-the-above.
11
Langness wrote that Malinowski had absolutely
no use for Frazer's The Golden Bough.
TRUE
FALSE
12
Interestingly enough, the 1930 publication by
Robert Redfield on the Mexican village of Tepoztlan was later supported
(and confirmed) by the anthropologist Oscar Lewis.
TRUE
FALSE
13
Accordinto the your Guidebook, at the
beginning of the twentieth century, the climate of social opinion in British
anthropology began to change. Emblematic of this change was the rise of
the "diffusionis"' school.
TRUE
FALSE
14
The Guidebook pointed out that "postmodernism"
(or Pomo) is an intellectual movement or orientation that promotes itself
as the companion of modernism.
TRUE
FALSE
15
It has been written that it was Ralph Linton
(and several of his colleagues) who brought anthropology in the United
States out of the museums and into the mainstream of the social sciences.
TRUE
FALSE
16
Evans-Pritchard argued that anthropology, as
he knew it, was closely related to structuralism.
TRUE
FALSE
17
Davies & Piero, and lectures pointed out,
that the idea of "rite of passage" was first proposed by Arnold Van Gennep.
TRUE
FALSE
18
Franz Boas believed that "cultural rules" could
one be found one day.
TRUE
FALSE
19
Claude Lévi-Strauss is the major French
anthropologist who helped to formulate the principles of structuralism
by stressing the interdependence of cultural systems and the way they relate
to each other.
TRUE
FALSE
20
Two aspects of the works of Marcel Mauss have
had a major influence on anthropology, namely his analysis of gift-giving
and primitive classifications.