Quiz a lot 4; Anthropology & Archaeology - Cultural And Social Anthropology

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

The poorest one-fifth of the U.S. population

As a consequence of the adoption of a code of ethics by the American Anthropological Association, all anthropologists today are in agreement about the role of politics and values in the practice of anthropology

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Ju/wasi communities are organized bilaterally and linked to specific water sources

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One of the most important anthropological roles of museums is:

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For most of the history of our species, human lived by which form of human subsistence?

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The phrase "the modernization of mortality" refers to __________

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Pastoralism is __________ a self-contained subsistence strategy

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The Kiowa cultivate a bias toward collective violence through a caste-like religious system

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How is folklore transmitted?

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Big City Java is a local coffee bar. Using Excel, the manager of Big City Java estimates the weekly demand function for their grand mocha coffees to be Qd = 650 - (15.25 × P). The estimated regression equation suggests that if Big City Java decreased its price of grana mocha coffees from $7 to $5, the predicted quantity demanded of coffees would ________.

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As a natural monopoly ________ production, its ________ constantly falls throughout the range of demand.

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What is the etic perspective?

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One characteristic of pastoral societies is __________

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Pueblo __________ weave blankets; on the other hand, Navajo __________ weave blankets

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Basic natural functions—such as eating, drinking, sleeping, and eliminating—are done and thought about the same way everywhere, as opposed to cultural functions such as language

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One of the most highly publicized indicators of economic crisis has been the _______________

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Sattel (1983) asserts that men use silence in discussion of emotions in order to

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Summarize the tradition of Kathakali and how it is being used in new contexts today

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In the context of tribal societies, what is a "big man"?

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The slash-and-burn method requires _____

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Raw materials, labor, and technology are the productive resources used by all societies

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When we say that human language is "conventional," we mean that:

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Who is the Catholic “Black Madonna”?

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Fundamentalists are not among those who feel alienated from the perceived secularism of modern culture.

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The current geopolitical boundaries between nations were drawn without regard to the distribution of peoples of different nationalities and ethnicities