Provide a brief account of the history of theory in the discipline. Does this account support the view that much of the history of anthropology has been about the roles and relative prominence of culture?
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According to this theory, animal domestication began because permanent water holes attracted hungry animals that came to graze on the stubble of the grain fields. People, finding these animals too thin to kill for food, began to fatten them up. This theory is known as the desiccation theory, or:
a. hilly flanks theory. b. oasis theory. c. domestication theory. d. leisure theory. e. hungry animal theory.
Gender is
a. universally divided into masculine and feminine. b. a universal basis for organizing group activities. c. determined by one’s chromosomes. d. not an important dimension of a person's social identity.
What is horticulture?
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Anthropologists, as compared to other social scientists, have spent a great deal of time studying kinship because they have ____
a. always focused largely on biological relationships b. concentrated mainly on small-scale societies where kinship relations tend to be important c. always studied fictional relationships and how societies are organized socially and politically d. concentrated on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important and affect the individual’s ability to survive e. have found that kinship is the single most significant factor in social organization in every human society