Marking the body as an expression of cultural and personal identity is known as:

a. Self-mutilation.
b. Body art.
c. Cultural tattooing.
d. Ritual cleansing.


B

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A. a purely foraging-based subsistence strategy B. class stratification C. boundary maintenance systems D. intensive, managed agriculture E. a specialized decision-making system

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The various components of hominin biocultural evolution development simultaneously

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Darwin could not initially understand how variation occurred in living organisms

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The first anthropologist to investigate whether or not the differences between men and women are natural or cultural was:

a. Franz Boas. b. Margaret Mead. c. Ruth Benedict. d. Bronislaw Malinowski.

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