Intro to Cultural Anthropology Test # 2
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- Freeman contends that Mead went to Samoa determined to prove whose cultural determinist agenda?
- Boas
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Which book did not have a three-stage system or scheme?
a) Primitive Culture
b) Ancient Society
c) Mother Right
d) Primitive Marriage e) none of the above - none of the above
- In "Planet of the Apes," the idea that Taylor's people were wiped out by a plague or meteor shower is a form of what kind of evolutionary explanation?
- catastrophism
- What was included in Thomsen's first stage of prehistoric human development?
- objects made of bone, objects made of stone, objects made of wood
- Which groups had it to Morgan's last stage of prehistorical human development?
- Romans, Western Europeans, and Greeks
- How did Usher determine the age of the Earth
- he counted generatiosn in the bible
- How old was the Earth according to Ushers findings?
- 4004 B.C.
- Who was the first evolutionary scholar to emphasize the role of environment in how species changed?
- Comte de Buffon
- Which anthropologist concluded that Western society is obsessed with the number "3" and that we divide everythign in thrids?
- Dundes
- Who wrote the Philosophy of Zoology?
- Lamarck
- Who wrote Mother Right?
- Bachofen
- Who wrote On the Principle of Human Population?
- Malthus
- Who wrote Natural History?
- Comte De Buffon
- Who wrote Nature's System?
- Linnaeus
- Who wrote Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity?
- Morgan
- Who wrote Primitive Culture?
- Tylor
- Who wrote Theory of Earth?
- Hutton
- Who wrote Origin of Species?
- Darwin
- Who wrote Principles of Geology?
- Lyell
- Who wrote Primitive Marriage?
- McClennan
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Put the scholars in chronological order
Darwin Usher Evans Pritchard Hutton Linnaeus - Usher, Linnaeus, Hutton, Darwin, Evans Pritchard.
- Is the Nuer and ethnogrpahy or an ethnology?
- ethnography
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True/False
Holmes and Rhoads contend that Margaret Mead had a very solid understanding of Samoan culture in general. - True
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True/False
Evolution is not only a unifying theme in anthropology but in all biological sciences as well - False
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True/False
Medieval commoners often ventured more than 25 miles from the site of their birht and death during their life. - False
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True/False
Linnaeus was obsessed with order, control, and symmetry in his classifications. - True
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True/False
Lamarck was ridiculed for his evolutionary ideas and died in poverty. - True
- When did the Origin of Species discuss human evolution?
- at the very end
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True/False
Darwin did not invent the concept of evolution, but he was the first to show how it worked. - True
- In The Eskimo Kinship System all of your cousins are considered what?
- your cousins
- What Kinship system does USA follow?
- Eskimo
- What year was the three stage sequence and scheme firmly established?
- 1850
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True/False
Evans-Pritchard dedicated The Nuer to the Nuer informants that helped him in his research. - False
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True/False
The Nuer are avid hunters - False
- Where do the Nuer live?
- Sudan
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True/False
Western thought and culture has been greatly influenced by the Judeo-Christian tradition. - True
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True/False
Lamarck believed that migration and the environment caused species to change. - False
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True/False
Lyell is the father of modern geology. - False
- What did many schoalrs to to sound more scientific?
- Latinized their names
- Define Consanguineal
- blood relation
- Define Affinial
- Through Marriage
- In a kinship diagram a triangle represents?
- male
- In a kinship diagram a circle represents?
- female
- What are Dr. Zaius's two governmental titles?
- Minister of Science and Defender of Faith
- What figure does Dr. Zaiss represent and why?
- Darwin because he knew of evolution and chose to nto reveal it.
- Name the three stages Thomson seperated museum artifacts into?
- Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
- Name the three stages Tylor or Morgan seperated culture into?
- Savagery, Barbarism, and Civilization
- Name the three stages Bachofen or McLennan seperated family or martial organization in?
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Primitve Promiscuity
Matriachy Matrilineal
Patrilineal Patriarchy - Define exogamy
- marriage outisde the tribe
- Define endogamy
- marriage within the tribe