ANTH496FA2006TESTOne

ANTH 496 EXAM I on Monday 2 October 2006.


1 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published his first edition of THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES in:
1849.
1859.
1869.
1879.

2 The phrase that "the collection of ethnographic facts through direct fieldwork must preceed the development of cultural theories" sounds like it was associated with:
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881)
Franz Boas (1858-1942)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Edward B. Tylor (1832-1917)

3 "One who makes a close study of almost any branch of science soon discovers the great illusion of the monolith....The closer one looks, the more diversity one finds" was in the GUIDEBOOK as was stated by:
Margaret Mead
Clifford Geertz
Matilda Cox Stevenson
Norman Macbeth

4 _______ worked among the Iroquois and it is believed that his illustrated book on the Iroquois constitues the first work of ethnography proper.
Francois Peron
Henry Schoolcraft
Joseph Lafitau
Alfred Cort Haddon

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 It was pointed out in the GUIDEBOOK that theory should consist of: containing some basic elements:
question and answers.
questions and assumptions.
methods and evidence.
questions, assumptions, methods, and evidence.

7 One of the strongest supporters of the ideas of the anthropologist Leslie A. White (1900-1975) was:
Frank Cushing.
Franz Boas.
Robert Carneiro.
Herbert Spencer.

8 According to Langness (and Urbanowicz), the Marquis de Condorcet (1742-1794) was interested in the idea of evolution.
TRUE
FALSE

9 Combining information from different fields, such as biology, geology, and economics, Darwin revolutionized our understanding of the living world by his theory of evolution by natural selection
TRUE
FALSE

10 Flinder Petrie (1853-1942) was an anthropologist who worked in Tasmania.
TRUE
FALSE

11 According to Langness, the concept of "culture areas" in the Western Hemisphere was first proposed by Ruth Benedict (1887-1948).
TRUE
FALSE

12 Edward Burnett Tyler (1832-1917) was among the first anthropologists to utilize statistics for comparative studies.
TRUE
FALSE

13 In 1904, and later, Franz Boas (1858-1942) described the earlier 19th century anthropological work as extremely important.
TRUE
FALSE

14 In the history of anthropology, the name Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) is indissolubly linked to a museum, and to the "evolutionary" principle of its organization.
TRUE
FALSE