ANTH496FA2008TESTOne

ANTH 496 on Monday October 6, 2008


1 According to a phrase in your Guidebook, "The most important word in the English language is attitude. Love and hate, work and play, hope and fear, our attitudinal response to all these situations, impresses me as being the guide." This was stated by:
Hortense Powdermaker.
Gregory Bateson.
Harlen Adams.
Franz Boas.

2 The Guidebook and lectures pointed out that for the 2006-2007 Academic Year, a total of ___ individuals received the Ph.D. in Anthropology: 
399
499
699
788

3 The phrase, "the collection of ethnographic facts through direct fieldwork must precede the development of cultural theories" sounds like it was associated with:
Herbert Spencer.
Edward Burnett Tyler.
Lewis Henry Morgan.
Franz Boas.

4 The Guidebook pointed out that In the first decades of the 20th century, nature held sway over nurture in most fields. In the wake of World War I [1914-1918], however, three men recaptured the social sciences for nurture: John B. Watson, who set out to show how the conditioned reflex, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could explain human learning; Sigmund Freud, who sought to explain the influence of parents and early experiences on young minds, and _________.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Alfred Louis Kroeber.
Clark Wissler.
Franz Boas.

5 "The destruction of the literal interpretation of the Bible was accomplished by twin European intellectual movements, in science and history. The scientific movement was started by ________ and other geologists who were puzzled to explain the existence of the strata of the earth if it had been created in seven days."
William FitzRoy
Charles Lyell
Flinders Petrie
Alfred Russel Wallace

6 According to Davies & Piero, Grafton Elliot Smith and William J. Perry believed that all cultures on Earth originated in:
Armenia.
Scandinavia.
Egypt.
None-of-the-above!

7 Long before Franz Boas conducted his own ethnograpic fieldwork, extensive research had been conducted by Henry Schoolcraft.
TRUE
FALSE

8 The fossil that was named "Neanderthal" was discovered shortly after the publication of Darwin's On The Origin of Species...., thus lending support to Darwin's ideas.
TRUE
FALSE

9 According to a statement in the Guidebook, several aspects of Edward Burnett Tylor's work should be noted: his definition of culture, his ideas of cognitive evolution, and his attempts to use statistical analysis in comparative studies.
TRUE
FALSE

10 In a speech given in 1904, Franz Boas described earlier 18th and 19th century anthropology as extremely important.
TRUE
FALSE

11 Matilda Cox Stevenson was the first woman to be hired by the Bureau of American Ethnology, making her one of the first women in the United States to receive a full-time position in science.
TRUE
FALSE

12 The Bureau of American Ethnology was founded in 1879 by Frank Cushing.
TRUE
FALSE