A nuclear family includes ego, ego's parents, and ego's grandparents.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
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Groups who practice female genital mutilation defend it on __________ grounds
a. political b. medical c. cultural d. religious
What did Bronislaw Malinowski mean when he referred to everyday cultural patterns as "the imponderabilia of native life and of typical behavior"?
A. Everyday cultural patterns are full of senseless cultural "noise," and it is the anthropologist's job to get at the truly valuable behaviors that distinguish one culture from another. B. Everyday cultural patterns of native life can best be studied by asking key informants to explain them. C. Features of everyday culture are, at first, imponderable, but as the ethnographer builds rapport, their logic and functional value in society become clear. D. Everyday cultural patterns are important but so numerous that their detailed description should not be included in the main body of an ethnographic study. E. Features of culture such as distinctive smells, noises people make, how they cover their mouths when they eat, and how they gaze at each other are so fundamental that natives take them for granted but are there for the ethnographer to describe and make sense of.
Which of the following best defines anthropology?
a. the study of non-human primates, their anatomy, and their evolution. b. the study of ancient humans c. a study of humanity focusing on its biological and genetic aspects d. the study of humankind in all its forms across all time
Why do we still not know when human language emerged?
A) It is a difficult topic to explore archaeologically. B) There is so much archaeological evidence that it is hard to put it all together. C) Anthropologists are not very interested in this topic. D) Language originated in a common ancestor, which we have not yet identified.