Why is it incorrect to explain a cultural feature by saying it is "traditional"?
A) It is an unsatisfactory answer because it is a tautology.
B) It is incorrect because, by definition, traditions are not cultural features.
C) Cultural features are too variable to be considered traditional.
D) Tradition always precedes the adoption of cultural features.
A
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Through their attempts to teach language to apes, anthropologists have learned that
A) with time chimpanzees, but not gorillas, will speak like humans. B) while apes use signs to indicate what they want, they never express their emotions through signs. C) apes learn language more easily and rapidly than human babies do. D) apes cannot produce human speech because their tongues are the wrong shape. E) some apes have learned to combine signs creatively to convey new meanings.
According to Clifford Geertz, when one person winks at another, the symbolic meaning of the wink depends on the situation, the relationship between the people, and their ability to understand what is being communicated. This involves deep cultural knowledge. Hence, to fully understand the symbolic meaning of the wink, the anthropologist should use a perspective of
historical particularism. unilineal cultural evolution. the interpretivist approach. structural functionalism.
What do the Zuni believe happens to people after they die?
A) They join their ancestors in a village at the bottom of a lake. B) They are reincarnated as another person or an animal. C) They go to heaven to be with family and friends. D) They go to the underworld, which is inhabited by ghosts and spirits.
The Miocene hominoids
a. were distributed over much of the New World b. were all members of the same species c. displayed little to no morphological variation d. were all about the size of a house cat e. evidenced the "golden age of hominoids"