Fraternal polyandry:
a. is the most common form of marriage in Tibet and Nepal.
b. occurs primarily as an adaptation to a shortage of wives due to female infanticide.
c. is practiced where shortages of land keep brothers from being able to inherit a sufficient amount of land.
d. is beneficial for the men involved, but is detrimental to the status of the woman.
C
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What criticism has been aimed at anthropologists acting as advocates for people who have been relocated?
A) Critics are concerned that the advocates only represent one point of view. B) Some argue that the anthropologists are romanticizing indigenous lifestyles. C) Critics believe that the anthropologists have unreasonable expectations. D) Some feel that the advocates are too politicized to be effective.
All the original Homo erectus fossils discovered at Zhoukoudian during the 1920s and 1930s
a. are now housed in a museum in Beijing. b. disappeared during World War II. c. are kept in a small museum near Zhoukoudian. d. were destroyed in a fire in the 1970s. e. are available for study at Cambridge University.
Gifts are more important socially than they are materially
a. True b. False
An individual’s personality is all of the following except:
a. a product of enculturation. b. influenced by an individual’s genetic makeup. c. a kind of cognitive map functioning throughout an individual’s lifetime. d. an integrated, dynamic system of perceptual assemblages, which includes the self and its behavioral environment, that develops over time. e. is never part of the internalized awareness of the person.