What is ethnicity?
What will be an ideal response?
Ethnicity is cultural traits that are passed on from generation to generation that may
include religion, dietary practices, language, humor, clothing, cultural heritage, folklore,
national origins, and a shared ancestry and social experience.
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In Japan, the burakumin represent an isolated breeding population that is genetically distinct from the rest of the country.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The individuals buried in the pyramid at Sipán appear to have been key participants in the
A. Inca conquest.
B. creation of Nazca geoglyphs.
C. Sacrifice Ceremony.
D. mit'a.
The example of the sickle-cell allele demonstrates a key aspect of evolution through natural selection, in that
A. although natural selection usually acts upon the phenotype, it can sometimes act upon the genotype. B. human populations in the tropics are the most susceptible to random changes caused by natural selection. C. adaptation and fitness are in relation to specific environments; traits are not universally adaptive or maladaptive. D. adaptation and fitness are in relation to the individual organism, not the general population. E. natural selection increases the variety in a population upon which subsequent natural selective processes can act.
In the 1960s, American linguistic anthropologist Dell Hymes began to develop a fieldwork methodology for studying language in its social and cultural contexts. This methodology was called:
a. the ethnography of speaking. b. ethnoscience. c. speaking in context. d. the new ethnography.