Linguistic anthropology identifies greetings as ___________?
A formalities.
B cultural requirements.
C social requirements.
D something that occurs once in an interaction.
E stereotyped linguistic routines
E
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The primary aim of ethnoscience is to:
a. understand a culture from the point of view of the people themselves. b. identify the universal rules found in all the societies of the world. c. describe a culture in terms of the categories of the ethnographer. d. do a complete ethnoscientific study of every aspect of a culture. e. understand how culture changes over time.
According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," which is the most important structural tension associated with marriage in Bhil society?
a. the decision about how large the dapa (bride price) will be. b. the possibility that young people will refuse to be married. c. the shifting of a woman's loyalty, labor, and reproductive potential from her family to her husband's family. d. whether wives will inherit from their own or their husband's families.
The originator of the visual predation theory is
a. Charles Darwin. b. Matt Cartmill. c. G. Elliot Smith. d. J. Allman.
What is indicated by disagreement among scientists on the phylogeny of hominins?
a. that very little is understood about hominins at all b. that personality is the primary factor in getting one's theories widely accepted c. that previous ideas are always being retested in light of new data d. that no progress is ever made in understanding human origins