According to Leslie White, culture is dependent upon the ability to create and use symbols.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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Claude Lévi-Strauss has used the term "general exchange" to refer to a cycle of marital exchange in which, among Lineages A, B, and C, __________
A. men of each lineage always marry within their lineage B. men of Lineages A and B always marry women from Lineage C C. Lineage B always gives women to Lineage A but takes its wives from Lineage C D. men of each lineage always marry outside of their lineage
The term "modernization": a. is a relativistic rather than ethnocentric concept. b. refers to the process of cultural and socioeconomic change whereby societies acquire the characteristics ofindustrialized societies
c. refers to a global and all-encompassing process whereby modern cities development new types of subsistence. d. can be used to show that all societies go through the same stages of evolutionary development, culminating inthe urban-industrial state. e. is not used by anthropologists.
Refer to the figure below. At the 30th unit of action, which of the following is true?
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A) Marginal cost exceeds marginal benefit.
B) Marginal benefit exceeds marginal cost.
C) Total losses are minimized.
D) Total gains are maximized.
Today, with the greater understanding of the complexity and variability in gender stratification systems, anthropologists focus on studying:
A) whether male dominance is truly universal. B) how much cultural variation exists between matriarchy and patriarchy. C) how widespread matriarchy is. D) the incidence of gender stratification cross-culturally. E) the interaction between gender ideology and patriarchy.