ANTH296FA2003TESTTwo

ANTH 296/Fall 2003/Self-Testing Quiz for EXAM II for NOVEMBER 17, 2003.
1 According to Davies & Piero (hereafter D&P), it was _________ who introduced the concept of "ecological anthropology" to the discipline with his 1955 publication of Theory of Culture Change.
 
Ruth Benedict
Alfred Louis Kroeber 
Franz Boas 
Julian Steward
2 It was written (in your syllabus) that "The cutting edge of knowledge is not in the known but in the unknown, not in knowing, but in _______. Facts, concepts, generalizations, and theories are dull instrumentsÖ."

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cultures
attitudes 
questioning
behavior
3 According to Langness, p[ublications such as African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative, On Aggression, and The Naked Ape:
do a great deal to enhance scientific ideas.
do a great deal to enhance Darwin's ideas.
obscures the real scientific progress made in ethology.
none-of-the-above!
4 "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:
 
William Halse Rivers-Rivers.
Phyllis Kayberry.
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard.
Alfred Cort Haddon.
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" made by _______.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Margaret Mead.
R. H. Codrington.
6 For _________, "sociological knowledge" could not be derived from the individual: society must be studied by studying "social facts."
Arnold Van Gennep
Emile Durkheim
Marcel Mauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
7 For Michael Fischer (1999), "Anthropologies of late modernity (also called postmodernityÖ) provide challenges for all 
levels of social, cultural, and psychological theory. The challenge is [are]:
 
the continuing transformation of modernities by science and technology.
 
 
the reconfiguration of perception and understanding, of the human and social sensorium.
the reconstruction of society in the wake of trauma caused by world war and civil and ethnic wars. 
all-of-the-above
8 For years, _____ 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.
 
Clifford Geertz
Marshall Sahlins
Leslie A. White
Alfred Louis Kroeber
9 E.E. Evans-Pritchard was a pupil of:
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Edwind Ardener.
Edmund Leach.
Max Gluckman.
10 Marcel Mauss was interested in reciprocity.
TRUE
FALSE
11 According to Langness, Clifford Geertz is interested in "explication" through "thick description."
 
TRUE
FALSE
12 According to Langess, the British Anthropologist Victor Turner (The Forest of Symbols, 1967) believed that the structure 
and properties of ritual symbols must be inferred from external form and observable characteristics.
TRUE
FALSE
13 Ruth Benedict was a multi-faceted theoretician: she dealt with the relationship of culture to the individual, structure & function, as well as discussing some evolutionary ideas.
TRUE
FALSE
14 The publication entitled The Division of Labor In Society was written as a doctoral dissertation by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown.
TRUE
FALSE
15 Mead (1901-1978) received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University based on her Samoan fieldwork in the 1920s. 
TRUE
FALSE
16 Franz Boas believed that "cultural rules" could one day be found.
TRUE
FALSE
17 The syllabus statement that "The ability to understand very different kinds of people is often related to an innate lack of set values and standard" was made in reference to Margaret Mead.
TRUE
FALSE
18 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