Anthropology Theories

This school of thought, attempts to understand the distribution of culture in terms of the origin of culture traits and their spread from one society to another

• Evolutionism

• Functionalism

• Diffusionism

• Structuralism

Which anthropologist(s) do you associate with the following thought:

"An approach which looks at individual members within a society and then compares the traits of these members in order to achieve a basic personality for each culture."

• Ruth Benedict

• Ralph Linton

• Abram Kardinar

• Edward Sapir

• Cora DuBois

An approach which looks at individual members within a society and then compares the traits of these members in order to achieve a basic personality for each culture.

• National Character Study

• Modal Personality Approach

• Gestalt Theory

• Basic Personality Approach

A national character study of the Japanese culture named The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a work of which of the following anthropologist:

• Ruth Benedict

• Margaret Mead

• Cora DuBois

• Ralph Linton

Concept of Binary Opposition is associated with which school of anthropological thought:

• Functionalism

• Structuralism

• Culture and Personality

• Classical Evolutionism

Structural-Functionalism can be best associated with which of the following anthropologist

• A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

• Bronislaw Malinowski

• Claude Levis Strauss

• E.B. Taylor

The basic needs theory aka four basic "instrumental needs” was propounded by

• Margaret Mead

• Bronislaw Malinowski

• Radcliffe-Brown

• E.R.Leach

Which of the below statements best explains the difference between British School of Diffusionism and German School of Diffusionism

• British School argued that all of culture and civilization was developed only once in ancient Egypt and diffused throughout the rest of the world through migration

• German School of Diffusionism argued that culture traits developed in a few native areas of the world and diffused outwards in to other societies.

• British School of Diffusionism was led by anthropologists like G. E. Smith, W. J. Perry and W. H. R. Rivers

• The German school of Diffusionism led by Fritz Graebner

Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner and David Schneider are best associated with which school of anthropological thought?

• Culture and Personality

• Symbolic and Interpretative Anthropology

• Psychological Anthropology

• Cognitive Anthropology

Key differences between Geertz’s Approach and Turner's Approach

• Geertz illustrated Interpretative Approach whereas Turner illustrated Symbolic Approach

• Geertz illustrated Symbolic Approach whereas Turner illustrated Interpretative Approach