Which statement about the learned nature of culture is true?
a. Humans are born with many predetermined behaviors.
b. People learn what they need to know in order to adapt to their environment.
c. Some cultures are more intelligent than others.
d. Children can learn only one culture at a time.
e. People around the world acquire culture through very different processes.
ANSWER:
b
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a. study disease and trauma in ancient populations. b. apply anthropological techniques to legal matters. c. are primarily concerned with the recovery of material culture remains. d. examine the relationships between medical treatment and culturally determined views of disease. e. study nonhuman primates.
Feminist anthropologists have pointed out which of the following weaknesses in the ethnographic record?
A. The inequalities between men and women have been exaggerated. B. The multidirectional process of cultural evolution has been overlooked. C. Men have dominated the informant pool. D. Women are unable to access information about the cultural practices of men.
Whose anthropological research was most closely derived from the biological work of Charles Darwin?
A) Edward Tylor B) Franz Boas C) Elman Service D) Marshall Sahlins
In Bali, state officials were in charge of water distribution schedules
a. True b. False