define gender roles

What will be an ideal response?


tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex

Anthropology & Archaeology

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What is communitas?

A. the Latin word for mana B. the supernatural C. a collective liminality D. a social inequality that is accepted even by those who are less privileged E. anxiety

Anthropology & Archaeology

Which of the following statements is not true? a. Foragers are less likely to experience famine than agriculturalists

b. Foraging represents a rational and adaptive mode of subsistence. c. Contemporary foragers are all part of larger socioeconomic systems. d. Foragers have very little leisure time for family and spiritual development.

Anthropology & Archaeology

A religious cosmology, or world view, functions primarily to:

a. Give meaning and order to the lives of believers. b. Differentiate primitive from civilized societies. c. Increase technical control over the physical environment. d. Increase the upper class' control of the lower class. e. Keep a society in a constant state of conflict.

Anthropology & Archaeology

A public ceremony or ritual recognizing and marking a person's transition from one group or status to another is called a:

a. rite of passage. b. transition ceremony. c. conversion ritual. d. sacrament of transformation.

Anthropology & Archaeology