Cultural Anthropology Final Exam-
people: Liberty University, GLST 290
Question and answers correctly
solved 2025/2026
Melville Herskovite - correct answer ✔argued that all people exhibit economic behavior based on
concepts of supply demand price and money
Marshall Sahlins - correct answer ✔argued original affluent society were hunter-gatherers
Autonio Gramsci - correct answer ✔developed counter-hegemony (an ideology or movement that
challenges a reigning hegemony)
Elman Service - correct answer ✔highlighted the correlation of economic strategy and political forms
George Murdock - correct answer ✔found that out of 175 unilineal cultures only 18 were dual descent
Edward Taylor - correct answer ✔used the unilinear evolutionary approach and saw changes in
religious systems as providing a prototype for cultural change generally; said earliest forom of religion
was animism
Marvin Harris - correct answer ✔demonstrated that so-called irrational religion when viewed in the
ecological and economic context in which it exists is not so irrational after all
James Watson - correct answer ✔idea of McDonaldsization; saw children assist their parents order
from Western restaurants (something he had never seen before)
people: Liberty University, GLST 290
Question and answers correctly
solved 2025/2026
Melville Herskovite - correct answer ✔argued that all people exhibit economic behavior based on
concepts of supply demand price and money
Marshall Sahlins - correct answer ✔argued original affluent society were hunter-gatherers
Autonio Gramsci - correct answer ✔developed counter-hegemony (an ideology or movement that
challenges a reigning hegemony)
Elman Service - correct answer ✔highlighted the correlation of economic strategy and political forms
George Murdock - correct answer ✔found that out of 175 unilineal cultures only 18 were dual descent
Edward Taylor - correct answer ✔used the unilinear evolutionary approach and saw changes in
religious systems as providing a prototype for cultural change generally; said earliest forom of religion
was animism
Marvin Harris - correct answer ✔demonstrated that so-called irrational religion when viewed in the
ecological and economic context in which it exists is not so irrational after all
James Watson - correct answer ✔idea of McDonaldsization; saw children assist their parents order
from Western restaurants (something he had never seen before)
