ANTH496FA2006TESTTwo

ANTH 496 EXAM II on WEDNESDAY 8 November 2006


1 As the Guidebook pointed out, the study of human social life has come along way since ______ searched for the origins of his own society among the Australian aborigines. Anthropology nowadays doesn't waste time on speculative theories about how societies evolved but following his example it does it does at least at least go out into the field for its own facts.
Emile Durkheim
Bronislaw Malinowski
Baldwin Spencer
Daisey Bates

2 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.
 
architects.
anthropologists.
archaeologists.
culturologists.

3 Two aspects of Marcel Mauss's work that have had a major influence on anthropologists are his analysis of gift-giving and: 
 
his analysis with Durkheim of primitive classifications.
 
his analysis with Lévi-Strauss and exchange systems.
 
both "a + b."
None-of-the-above.

4 Clifford Geertz has been described by _______ as the Priest-King of American cultural anthropology.
Marvin Harris
George Marcus
Edumnd Leach
Charlie Urbanowicz

5 "And so for anthropology, you are studying not just as an observer, but also as a participant; you are not justt a member of the audience, you are also on the stage." This was stated by:
William Halse Rivers-Rivers.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
William Halse Rivers-Rivers.
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard.

6 As the Guidebook pointed out, the study of human social life has come along way since _____ searched for the origins of his own society among the Australian aborigines. Anthropology nowadays doesn't waste time on speculative theories about how societies evolved but following ____ example it does it does at least at least go out into the field for its own facts. 
Robert Codrington
Baldwin Spencer
Franz Boas
Bronislaw Malinowski

7 "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" was stated by (in the Guidebook).
Winston Churchill.
Luther Crerssman.
Charles Urbanowicz
Mark Twain

8 For Langness, it was the anthropologist _______ , whose work with "primitive" bands, who established the "band" as a meaningful unit of organization for cross-cultural work.
Francoise Peron
Homer Barnett
Alfred Louis Kroeber
Julian Steward

9 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
Phyllis Kaberry
Hortense Powdermaker

10 Davies & Piero, and lectures, pointed out, that the idea of "rite of passage" was first proposed by:
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Ruth Benedict.
Weston La Barre
Arnold Van Gennep.

11 Bronislaw Malinowski was a pupil of E.E. Evans-Pritchard.
TRUE
FALSE

12 It was stated in the Guidebook that it was Ralph Linton and several of his contemporaries who brought anthropology in the United States out of the museums and into the mainstream of the social sciences."
TRUE
FALSE

13 According to Marilyn Strathern, "If there is one word which summarizes the anthropological recognition of a postmodern mood, it is irony." 
TRUE
FALSE

14 E. Evans-Pritchard's The Sanusis of Cyrenaica was based primarily on varieties of statistical analysis.
TRUE
FALSE

15 According to D&P, the concept of Centre-Periphery was developed by André Gunder Frank.
TRUE
FALSE

16 The idea of "structure" came into anthropology via British Social Anthropology and later, the word structure came also to be applied to what Noam Chomsky has referred to as the "deep structure" that underlies language.
TRUE
FALSE

17 As written in the Guidebook, "You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves."
TRUE
FALSE

18 A closer relationship between anthropology, psychiatry, and psychoanalytical theory has been attempted by A. Irving Hallowell and Anthony F.C. Wallace.
TRUE
FALSE

19 Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) was unique in that he never know of the work of Edward Sapir (1884-1939).
TRUE
FALSE

20 Langness wrote that Bronislaw Malinowski had absolutely no use for Frazier's publication entitled The Golden Bough.
TRUE
FALSE