Why did Franz Boas call for a moratorium on theory?
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ANS: He did this because there was a great scarcity of ethnographic data and until fieldwork and data collection could be advanced and evidence produced, theory was not valid.
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What are the three criteria delineated by Max Weber for measuring levels of social inequality?
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What is the major difference between a shared ancestral feature and a shared derived feature? Give examples of each.
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The process of creating new words from existing words (e.g., creating verbs from nouns) by affixation is called:
a. morphing. b. inflection. c. hierarchy. d. derivation.
The earliest Acheulean tools associated with H. erectus come from the Kokiselei site near Lake Turkana in Kenya. What are the characteristics of these tools?
A. symmetry, uniformity, and planning B. less sophistication than Oldowan tools C. a low degree of functional differentiation D. a high degree of variance in shape, indicating styles were not uniform E. symbolic etchings that indicate ritual behavior