How is a caste system different from a class system?

What will be an ideal response?


In general, it is based on ascribed status and an individual will not change their caste at any point. They will marry and reproduce within their caste.

Anthropology & Archaeology

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Biological anthropologists focus on __________

A) the impact of colonialism on different cultures B) cross-cultural patterns of contemporary human politics C) human evolution and contemporary human variation D) how culture is passed on from one generation to the next

Anthropology & Archaeology

How is a culture's kinship terminology related to other aspects of social life? Connect kinship terminology to residence and descent patterns

What will be an ideal response?

Anthropology & Archaeology

Coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force is called:

a. structural violence. b. imposed force. c. coercion. d. hard power. e. soft power.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Skeletal biologists are very much interested in learning how prehistoric peoples behaved and how numerous behaviors influenced their health. In the last two decades, many skeletal experts have identified this approach with the term

a. bioarchaeology. b. bioanarchy. c. prehistoric biology. d. paleobiology. e. paleoanthrobiology.

Anthropology & Archaeology