Today, most anthropologists agree that culture is:
a. A system of environmental adaptation.
b. The way that humans lend meaning to the world.
c. Largely a creation of anthropology with no real meaning in society at large.
d. A mental template for organizing and understanding the world.
e. Anthropologists do not agree on a single meaning of culture.
E
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Which of the following statements about individual artists in non-Western societies is true?
A. They are just copying Western art forms. B. They are nonexistent. C. They tend to be iconoclastic and antisocial. D. They are all trained in formal, state-controlled schools for the arts. E. They tend to get more feedback during the artistic process than in Western societies.
The best strategy for change is to base the social design for innovation on traditional forms in each target area
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following best defines cline?
a. a folk taxonomic category based on biological observations b. the existence of two or more distinct phenotypes within a population c. the distribution of a trait or allele across geographical space d. a group of local populations
How was the blade-core method, which characterizes the tools of Upper Paleolithic traditions, superior to Mousterian technology?
A. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method was faster but also more difficult to achieve, resulting in many tries that yielded no results. B. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method produced sharper and longer cores than was typical of the Mousterian method. C. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method used naturally occurring metal ores to strike blades off cores. D. There was no difference between the two methods-only a greater diversity of tool uses among Upper Paleolithic traditions. E. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method was faster and produced 15 times as much cutting edge from the same amount of material.