The most powerful means of maintaining a social stratification in a society is __________
a. the use of military force
b. ideology
c. legal systems
d. threats
Answer: b
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a. focus only on humans. b. broaden our view point through time and space. c. include only one field of anthropology. d. be as ethnocentric as possible. e. disregard all other fields.
Where were bananas probably first domesticated?
A) New Guinea B) Costa Rica C) Iraq D) Tanzania
Anthropologists' early interest in Native North Americans
A. is unique to European anthropology. B. was more important than interest in the relation between biology and culture in the development of U.S. four-field anthropology. C. proved early on that culture is a function of race. D. is an important historical reason for the development of four-field anthropology in the U.S. E. was replaced in the 1930s by the two-field approach.
In contrast to earlier models, current explanations of the origin and decline of states
A. attempt to isolate the single variable that brought about cultural change. B. accept the possibility that extraterrestrial forces may have played a role in the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. C. emphasize the role of natural environmental factors. D. consider the effects of social and political variables in addition to environmental factors. E. suggest that all cultural change results from the diffusion of ideas between societies.