People enter into interactions with a variety of ___________, or knowledge and understandings of their culture as expressed and transmitted through language
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cultural presuppositions
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According to Marx, class consciousness results from
A. the persistence of ethic identities after ethnic "markers" have more or less disappeared. B. the gradual elaboration of gender-based differences first established during the period of peasant subsistence farming. C. peoples' identification with groups based on common economic interests. D. an elaboration of diverse religious beliefs in industrialized societies. E. peoples' recognition of cognatic kin beyond the boundaries of biological relatedness.
Despite the differences among theoretical paradigms of practitioners as varied as Harris (cultural materialism), White (general evolution), Steward (cultural ecology), and Mead (configurationalism), all of them have what in common?
A. a well-founded suspicion of the claims of science B. a strong concern for the future of anthropological education C. a strong sense of determinism, leaving very little (if any) room for the exercise of individual human agency D. a sense of moral duty to help the people they studied to accelerate their path to civilization E. an embrace of reflexive anthropology
The domestic-public dichotomy is defined as a strong differentiation between
A. spheres of exchange. B. the secular and the sacred. C. elite and commoners. D. the home and the outside world. E. local and international trade.
How common is the neolocal residence pattern practiced by most North Americans?
A) It is practiced by over half of all known societies. B) It is very rare, being seen in only about 5 percent of known societies. C) It is fairly uncommon, being found in about one quarter of known societies. D) It is nearly universal, being found in 99 percent of known societies.