Contemporary anthropological approaches to gender emphasize:
a. Questions about why there are so few women in anthropology.
b. Explanations for universal male dominance.
c. The central role of gender relations as a basic building block of culture.
d. The ways in which men in many cultures feel threatened by female empowerment.
e. Ways to increase women's power in contemporary society.
C
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A) increasing population B) aid from the state C) more frequent divorce D) smaller family size
The dating method that uses the principle that undisturbed underlying geologic deposits are older than overlying geologic deposits is called
a. stratigraphic dating. b. paleomagnetism. c. carbon-14 dating. d. K/Ar dating. e. fluorine analysis.
Which of these statements about ethnohistory is FALSE?
a. There are no hard and fast rules for evaluating the written accounts used in the research. b. Ethnohistorians study nonliterate peoples. c. One way to verify accuracy is to find accounts of an event written by different people. d. Accounts of religious ceremonies and coming of age rituals are the most commonly studied.
In addition to being an efficient use of source materials, what is another benefit of microlith technology?
A) Microliths can be traded for bigger blades. B) Damaged tools can be repaired more easily. C) Cuts from microliths can be treated more easily than cuts from bigger tools. D) Microlith tools are easier to use than earlier tools.