SOSC303FALL2006TESTTwo

SOSC 303 EXAM II on FRIDAY 3 November 2006



1 Asen Balicki did his fieldwork dealing with educational changes among the Netsilik, located in:

Alaska.
Greenland.
Canada
Siberia.

2 The city known as Cahokia was located in what we call:

Japan.
Tasmania.
North America.
Europe.

3 Stories that reveal the religious knowledge of how things have come into being is a definition pertaining to:
religious stories.
just-so-stories.
mythology.
mana.

4 The following individual(s) were important to the work of Charles Darwin:

Charles Lyell.
Joseph Hooker.
Thomas H. Huxley.
all three played an important part.

5 The Cree Indians of Canada have created an "electronic pen pal" system with indigenous people living in:
South America (the Yanomamo).
New Guinea.
Australia.
the Tarahumara of Mexico.

6 Any account of Margaret Mead's work on Samoa must consider the controversy surrounding its accuracy. In 1983, several years after her death,_______ published his detailed refutation of her work.
Arthur Lehmann
Asen Balicki
Peter Worsley
Derek Freeman

7 The destruction of the way of life of the Tasmanian Aborigines resulted from the introduction of:
convicts from Canada & Australia
landed gentry from England.
sheep.
French settlers who fought the British.

8 The "Seeds" of change that were discussed in class (and in the Guidebook) were:
corn and potatoes.
corn, potatoes, and diseases.
all of "b" and sugar.
All-of-the-above: corn, potatoes, disease, sugar, and horses!

9 Genocide is the destruction of ethnic groups by murder, warfare, and diseases
TRUE
FALSE

10 According to Barnett (in the Guidebook), European mastery of large parts of the globe was due to racial superiority.
TRUE
FALSE

11 "The Galapagos Island finches once studied by Charles Darwin respond quickly to changes in food supply by evolving new beaks and body sizes, according to researchers who studied the birds for almost 30 years.
TRUE
FALSE

12 Louis Agasiz was leading naturalist of the United States, founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, world authority on ichthyology, and one of the staunchest defenders (and believers) of Darwin's ideas in this country.
TRUE
FALSE

13 Tasmanians entered that island from a land bridge which was connected to New Zealand.
TRUE
FALSE

14 Jane Goodall is no longer interested in doing any Chimpanzee research and no longer goes back to Africa.
TRUE
FALSE

15 Darwin For Beginners points out that according to orthodox Christian thought, the appearance of the modern earth was the result of the shape God had given it in the beginning.
TRUE
FALSE

16 The pucará [fortress] of Sascahuamán is located on the Yucátan Peninsula.
TRUE
FALSE