ANTH296SP2003TESTOne

ANTH 296 / Spring 2003 / Self-Testing Quiz for EXAM I on March 12, 2003.


1 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
Edward Burnett Tylor
Franz Boas
Walter W. Taylor

2 Langness points out that An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) was written by:
 
Montaigne
Leslie A. White
Condorcet.
John Locke

3 The Bureau of American Ethnology was "founded" in 1879 by:
 
Frederick Ward Putnam
Franklin Hamilton Cushing
John Wesley Powell
Matilda Cox Stevenson

4 Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) had an approach to science and creativity that is very similar to that of ________.
Jacob Bronowski.
Denise Sherkijian.
Charles F. Urbanowicz
All-of-the-above!

5 According to Langness, ________, was the most important criminologist of the 19th century.
 
Kathy Reichs
Franz Boas
Cesare Lombroso
Emile Durkheim

6 The four sub-disciplines of "anthropology" came to the USA from "anthropology" in ____.
 
 
England: it resulted from discussions between E.B. Tylor and H. Spencer.
Germany: it came as a result of "diffusion."
America: sorry, the idea is an American "invention."
France: it was developed originally by two French Physicians.

7 James George Frazer (1854-1941) is a good example of someone who might be classified as being interested in ____. 
evolution.
history.
archaeology.
scholasticism.

8 Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) has been described as a "Boasian Before Boas."
TRUE
FALSE

9 Joseph Marie de Gérando wrote (in 1800) Considerations on the diverse methods to follow in the observations of savage peoples.
TRUE
FALSE

10 According to your Guidebook, the first systematic attempt to collect ethnographic data on a global scale was undertaken by John Mclennan.
TRUE
FALSE

11 The "Enlightenment" has been commonly defined as a "period that has emphasized exercise of enlightened reason.
TRUE
FALSE

12 The fossil termed Neanderthal was discovered after Darwin's publication of On The Origin of Species.
TRUE
FALSE

13 The concept of the "superorganic" aspect of culture is associated with Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960).
TRUE
FALSE