An anthropologist has just arrived at a new field site and feels overwhelmed with a creepy, profound feeling of alienation, of being without some of the most ordinary, trivial (and therefore basic) cues of his culture of origin. What term best describes what he is experiencing?
A. culture shock
B. diachrony
C. synchrony
D. configurationalism
E. agency paralysis
Answer: A
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a. Evolution occurs only in natural environments. b. Wider pelves are no longer needed because most births occur in hospitals. c. Wider pelves would reduce bipedal locomotion efficiency. d. Wider pelves would actually cause more complications during birth.
Humans and New World monkeys both have a 2.1.2.3 dental formula
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The behavior patterns that vary cross culturally in terms of what is allowable for men and women to do is a result of
a. strict biological differences, limiting men and women to certain activities. b. cultural acceptance of particular roles assigned to each gender. c. a natural division that is accepted nearly universally. d. sociobiology, which shows that men and women cannot do what the other can.
The work of Professor Paul Broca is important because it demonstrated the localization of function on the human brain
a. True b. False