Which of the following can be found on Madagascar?
a. tarsiers
b. lorises
c. monkeys
d. lemurs
Answer d
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Thor Heyerdahl proposed that Egyptians could have navigated to the New World and influenced the emergence of civilization in the Americas. Erich von Däniken suggested that major human achievements had been borrowed from beings from outer space. What do these two views, both lacking credible scientific evidence, have in common?
A. Both suggest that evolutionary mechanisms explain both biological and cultural diversity across time and space. B. Both argue that historical events such as plant and animal domestication, the state, and city life were not brilliant discoveries, inventions, or secrets that humans needed to borrow but were, rather, long-term, gradual processes, developments with down-to-earth causes and effects. C. Both take the position that major changes in ancient human lifestyles were the result of outside instruction or interference rather than the achievements of the natives of the places where the changes took place. D. Both suggest that anthropology benefits from a broad range of views on human history, even if these views challenge the mainstream and even lack credible scientific evidence. E. Both reflect the popular media's negative effect on the quality of high school and college education.
What does Sidney Mintz mean by the "core-fringe-legume" pattern?
a. It is a way of building a complete meal with various components. b. It is a type of horticulture in which people are completely self-subsistent. c. It is a way of farming that includes rotation of crops. d. It is a way of talking about the process of domestication. e. It is a foraging pattern that determined where food gatherers would move and how frequently.
The basic features of law include:
a. the illegitimate use of physical coercion. b. allocating official authority to privileged people who are able to use coercion legitimately. c. the total inability to predict the outcome of disputes because each situation is unique. d. the use of both formal and informal means of social control. e. a high incidence of capriciousness and unpredictability.
The goal of anthropologists is to understand different cultural practices through the eyes of the people in that culture, an approach known as
A. Cultural relativism B. Ethnocentrism C. Cultural materialism D. Universal human rights advocacy