Discuss some of the social functions of levirate and sororate marriage and identify the sociocultural context of these customs.
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The Tiv example demonstrates that naive realism is a human condition that occurs when people hold mistaken ideas about their own nature of their social and natural environment
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The legal systems in Japan, Europe, and the United States are essentially the same because they arose from the common problems faced by all industrial states
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The __________ system makes distinctions between 1) the nuclear family and all other types of relatives and 2) on gender
a. Omaha b. Crow c. Hawaiian d. Eskimo
Besides animism-and sometimes coexisting with it in the same society-there is a view of the supernatural as a domain of raw impersonal power, or force, that people can control under certain conditions. This conception of the supernatural is particularly prominent in Melanesia. Melanesians refer to this force as
A. magic. B. good (or bad) luck. C. The Force. D. taboo. E. mana.