ANTH496FA2007TESTTwo

ANTH 496 EXAM II on Wednesday November 14, 2007


1 _______ has described Clifford Geertz as the Priest-King of American cultural anthropology
Charles Urbanowicz
Leslie White
Edmund Leach
George Marcus
2 The concept that the incest taboo is the basis of culture (in D&P), was forcefully made by:
Ruth Benedict.
Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Mary Douglas.
Phyllis Kaberry.
3 A closer relationship between anthropology, psychiatry, and psychoanalytical theory has been attempted by:
A. Irving Hallowell.
Anthrony F.C. Wallace.
Both Hallowell and Wallace.
Gregory Bateson and A. Irving Hallowell.
4 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:
Alfred louis Kroeber.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Charles R. Darwin.
Desmond Morris.
5 The statement: "It has been my purpose to set forth as much as possible what native say
about themselves, not what Europeans say about them"
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Franz Boas.
Robert H. Codrington.
Mark Twain (Also known as Samuel Clemens).
6 According to Davies & Piero, the concept of Centre-Periphery was developed by:
Robert Redfield.
Julian Stewart.
Homer Barnett.
André Gunder Frank
7 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.
architects.
culturologists.
8 When Richard Leakey was asked "Which historical figure would you most like to invite to a dinner party?"
he responded with:
my mother, Mary Leakey.
my father, Louis Leakey.
my predecessor, Raymond Dart.
Charles Darwin.
9 According to Langness, it was the anthropologist _______ , whose work with "primitive" bands, who established the "band" as a meaningful unit of organization for cross-cultural work.
Alfred Louis Kroeber.
Ruth Benedict.
Julian Steward.
Daisy Bates.
10 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.
Edward Sapir.
Reo Fortune.
Gregory Bateson.
11 Bronislaw Malinowski was a pupil of E.E. Evans-Pritchard.
TRUE
FALSE
12 E. Evans-Pritchard's The Sanusis of Cyrenaica was based primarily on varieties of statistical analysis.
TRUE
FALSE
13 The "functionalism" of Malinowski (1884-1942) was founded on what he called the "seven basic needs of man."
TRUE
FALSE
14 M. Harris maintains the same general positions as L.H. Morgan or L.A. White, within the
parameters of late twentieth-century anthropology.
TRUE
FALSE
15 Langness wrote that Bronislaw Malinowski had absolutely no use for Frazier's publication entitled The Golden Bough.
TRUE
FALSE
16 Victor Turner and Mary Douglas are often described as "symbolic anthropologists."
TRUE
FALSE
17 Winston Churchill made the following statement: "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."
TRUE
FALSE
18 Langness has written that the "father" of scientific fieldwork in British Anthropology was Bronislaw Malinowski.
TRUE
FALSE
19 The publication of Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) never had any impact on American anthropologists.
TRUE
FALSE
20 Davies & Piero, and lectures, pointed out that the idea of "rite of passage" was first proposed by
Arnold Van Gennep
TRUE
FALSE