ANTH296SP2003TESTTwo

ANTH 296 /Spring 2003/Self-Testing Quiz for EXAM II on April 28, 2003.



1 Louis Leakey is best known for his work in Africa. He was raised in:




Cambridge, by his adopted parents (the Johansen's).
London, by his anthropologist parents.
Australia, by his missionary parents.
Kenya, by his missionary parents.

2 "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
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Alfred Cort Haddon
Bronislaw Malinowski

3 Edmund Leach has written that _________ is the Priest-King of American Cultural anthropology.
H.G. Barnett
George Marcus
Clifford Geertz
Marvin Harris

4 The "functionalism" of Malinowski (1884-1942) was founded on what he called:
"firm psychological principles."
"solid ethnographic fieldwork."
"the seven basic needs of man."
"symbolic analysis."

5 From Montesquieu through Comte to Durkheim and his school of thought, the dominant philosophical
themes in French social thought were Progressivism and ______.


structuralism.
functionalism
historical empiricism.
natural law.

6 According to Langness, publications such as African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative, On Aggression, andThe 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.

7 A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is one who argued for the total separation of psychology and anthropology.
TRUE
FALSE

8 In writing about "French Symbolic" Anthropology, Langness writes that Lévi-Strauss is interested in binary concepts.
TRUE
FALSE

9 Marcel Mauss was interested in reciprocity.
TRUE
FALSE

10 For years, L.A. White (1900-1975) 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.
TRUE
FALSE

11 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

12 It has been written that between 1940 and 1970 "colonial anthropology" characterized mainstream British Social Anthropology.
TRUE
FALSE

13 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 inquestioning."
TRUE
FALSE