ANTH496FA2008TESTTwo

ANTH 496 on Wednesday November 12, 2008
1 Guidebook pointed out that "Postmodernism (Pomo) is an intellectual movement or orientation that
promotes itself as the antithesis of modernism. The term itself was introduced by____ in the late 1940s.
anthropologists
architects
culturologists
sociologists
2 Victor Turner and Mary Douglas are often described as:
distinctively American anthropologists.
major influences on Radcliffe-Brown.
symbolic anthropologists.
all-of-the-above!
3 Davies & Piero, and lectures, pointed out that the idea of "rite of passage" was first proposed by:
Alfred Cort Haddon.
E. Evans-Pritchard,
Phyllis Kaberry
Arnold Van Gennep.
4 According to D&P, it was _________ who introduced the concept of "ecological anthropology"
to the discipline with his 1955 publication of Theory of Culture Change.
Alfred Louis Kroeber
Ruth Benedict
Julian Steward
Leslie A. White
5 Two aspects of the works of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) have had a major influence on anthropology:
his interest in environment and cultural materialism.
his interests in the "institution" and the seven basic needs of mankind.
his analysis of gift-giving and primitive classifications.
his interest in what has been c alled "thick description."
6 The statement "It has been my purpose to set forth as much as possible what native say about themselves, not what Europeans say about them" was made by:
Franz Boas.
Bronislaw Malinowski.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (also known as mark Twain).
Robert H. Codrington.
7 The idea of structure came into anthropology via British Social Anthropology. Later, the word structure came also to be applied to what ___has referred to as the "deep structure" that underlies language
Edward Sapir
Gregory Bateson
Noam Chomsky
Ruth Benedict
8 One of the most sophisticated versions of culture-and personality studies was the creation of the psychoanalyst ___________; he collaborated with Sapir, Benedict, Bunzel, and others.
Abraham Kardiner
Gregory Bateson
Ralph Linton
Reo Fortune
9 The statement "I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else" was made by:
Jane Goodall.
Franz Boas.
Winston Churchill.
Richard Leakey
10 Langness wrote that ______ wrote on invention and culture change and his 1953 book entitled Innovation: The Basis of Cultural Change "remains useful and stimulating to this day."
George Peter Murdock
Home G. Barnett
Marvin Harris
Robert Carneiro
11 According to the Guidebook, Karl Popper (1902-1994) is recognized around the world as one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers of science.
TRUE
FALSE
12 Borrowing from contemporary scientific models, thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such as the Marquis de Condorcet and August Comte believed that human history was bound by laws. If these could be understood and the fruits of this research judiciusly applied, time would bring progress. 
TRUE
FALSE
13 A. Kuper pointed out that Evans-Pritchard believed that psychology and social anthropology study the same kinds of phenomena and what a psychologist studies can be understood in terms of conclusions reached by the other.
TRUE
FALSE
14 Some anthropologists complain that the use of the term modernism is simply a valorization of aesthetics over social science, and in a sense that objection is undeniable.
TRUE
FALSE
15 Clifford Geertz has been described by E. Leach as the Priest-King of American Cultural anthropology.
TRUE
FALSE
16 E.E. Evans-Pritchard argued that anthropology, as he knew it, was closely related to history.
TRUE
FALSE
17 The publication of Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict never had any impact on American anthropologists.
TRUE
FALSE
18 It was pointed out in lecture that Margaret Mead's 1928 publication entitled Coming of Age in Samoa was declared to be the worst non-fiction of the 20th Century!
TRUE
FALSE
19 According to the Guidebook, the three dominant themes on behavior for a good part of the 20th century were Freudianism, Boasism, and Behaviorism.
TRUE
FALSE
20 According to Gregory Bateson, the essence and raison d'être of communication is the creation of redundancy, meaning, pattern, predictability, information, and/or the reduction of the random by restraint.
TRUE
FALSE