ANTH496FA2005TESTOne

ANTH 496 EXAM I on October 3, 2005.


1 In 1904, and later, Franz Boas (1858-1942) described the earlier 18th and 19th century anthropology as: 
absurd.
extremely important.
creative.
speculative.

2 Although Franz Boas was not happy with him, Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) was viewed as:
an ethnographer.
a brilliant photographer.
both "a + b" are correct.
none-of-the-above!

3 Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was a major American Anthropologist who created a major Department of Anthropology at: 
University of California
Columbia University.
the University of Chicago.
All-of-the-above (he moved around a bit!).

4 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 (1876-1960).
Franz Boas (1858-1942).
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917).
Walter W. Taylor (1913-1997).

5 The association or connection between Eugene Dubois [1858-1940], Raymond Dart [1893-1988], Louis Leakey [1903-1972], and Davidson Black [1884-1933] comes from the fact that they all:
did research in Africa.
did research in Asia.
were involved in the study of human evolution.
all-of-the-above.

6 One of the first anthropologists to use statistics for comparative studies was: 
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Edward Burnett Tyler (1832-1917)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
George Peter Murdock (1897-1985).

7 According to Langness, _______ was the "founder" of British diffusionism.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
James George Frazier (1854-1941)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
William Halse R. Rivers (1864-1922)

8 According to the Guidebook, the two ideas which dominated Herbert Spencer (1820-1913) were Evolution and Eugenics.
TRUE
FALSE

9 According to the Guidebook, the two ideas which dominated Herbert Spencer (1820-1913) were Evolution and Eugenics.
TRUE
FALSE

10 The idea of "culture areas" in the Western Hemisphere, were first created by Clark Wissler (1870-1947).
TRUE
FALSE

11 The Bureau of American Ethnology was "founded" in 1879 by Frank Cushing (1857-1900):
TRUE
FALSE

12 Biologists do not accept the truth of evolution on the basis of Darwin's authority but on the basis of the evidence.
TRUE
FALSE

13 According to Davies & Piero, "All of modern anthropology is evolutionist in ones sense or another" because of generalizations that are made in building theories.
TRUE
FALSE

14 The 21st Century theologian, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, has been cited as stating that the modern theory of evolution may be incompatible with Catholic faith.
TRUE
FALSE