Physical Anthropology & Evolution: ANTH 155 Exam Study Guide - Prof. Roger Sullivan, Exams of Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Download Physical Anthropology & Evolution: ANTH 155 Exam Study Guide - Prof. Roger Sullivan and more Exams Introduction to Cultural Anthropology in PDF only on Docsity! Study Guide for ANTH 155 Exam One Section 1: History of physical anthropology and evolutionary thought The test format is written paragraph/short essay answers. The instructions that will appear on the test are at the end of the guide. All exam questions will be drawn from the lecture material and class discussion with reference to the required readings. To prepare for the test make sure that you understand, or even better, that you can provide a written answer to the following issues/statements: 1. Make sure that you can define Stocking’s concepts of “historicism” and “presentism” in relation to their use in the study of the history of anthropology. 2. Popper says that a hypothesis must be proposed before it is tested in an experiment. Make sure that you understand why this is such an important aspect of the hypothetico-deductive scientific method. 3. Be prepared to describe the monogenist and polygenist perspectives of the origin of races, with reference to one or more of the historical thinkers on race, evolution or physical anthropology discussed in class. 4. Make sure that you understand how Lamarck’s theory of evolution is different from Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. 5. Know one or more major changes in both method and theory in American physical anthropology proposed by Washburn in his “New Physical Anthropology”. 6. Make sure that you can describe and discuss one or more of the ways in which Franz Boas’s study of changes in immigrant headform challenged 19th and early 20th Century notions of racial types. 7. Be able to briefly discuss at least one of the conflicting viewpoints between Roy D’Andrade and Nancy Scheper-Hughes (in the class readings) about the place of objective science in the practice of anthropology.