The theoretical anaylsis of interaction between culture and enviornment that argued that particular cultures evolved independently of others is called:
multilinear evolution
Psychological anthropology was developed by:
students of Boas interested in the question of the relationship of personality and culture
In the cultural law of C=ET of Leslie White, the variables are:
culture, energy, technology
Anthropological theories in the 21st century are:
often built upon what was learned from earlier theories
Which of the following is not true of evolutionism?
Evolutionism takes an inductive approach to analyzing other socities
Morgan proposed that the three stages of savagery were associated with:
food collecting
Most anthropologists today:
do not tie themselves to a single theoretical orientation
The primary aim of ethnoscience is to:
understand a culture from the point of view of the people themselves
Which theory approaches society like a biological organism with many interconnected parts?
functionalism
Diffusionism and evolutionism had in common:
the idea of a deductive approach
Postmodernists emphasize:
the rejection of generalizing and developing predictable theories
Leslie White, in his theory, focused on the harnessing of energy and:
humans' use of technology to "capture energy
Why are binary oppositions significant to French Structuralism?
Ut us believed to be the primary mode of human thought
Levi-Strauss's approach emphasizes the importance of:
certain codes, programmed into the human mind, which are responsible for shaping cultures.
Psychological anthropology was developed by:
students of Boas interested in the question of relationship of personality and culture
Which of the following is a primary weakness of French Structuralism?
It is a theory that cannot be tested empirically.
The school of diffusionism could not explain any of the following except:
how cultural contact leads to culture change
Which theory operates on the assumption that cultures must be described in terms of native categories?
ethnoscience
Boas trained nearly the entire first generation of American anthropologists, including:
Ruth Benedict
Cultural materialism:
emphasizes the etic approach
Frank Boas argued that the discipline of anthropology needed:
the careful collection of empirical data on as many specific cultures as possible
Edward Sapir felt that culture existed:
within the interactions of individuals
French structuralism concentrates on:
the identification of mental structures that undergird social behavior