Define coverture
What will be an ideal response?
This was an old legal concept in England where upon marriage the husband assumed total legal control over his wife's income and property.
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______ is the practical application of the subfields of anthropology
a. ?Linguistics b. ?Applied Anthropology c. ?Archaeology d. ?Physical Anthropology e. ?Cultural Anthropology
Brazilian farmers who have transitioned from growing food crops to growing sisal (a cash crop to make rope), have experienced malnourishment issues with their children’s health and growth
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
According to the text, which of the following statements most accurately describes ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia?
a. It is based on deep ethnic cultural differences which go back for centuries. b. It is based on contemporary political manipulation of relatively small cultural differences. c. There are no cultural differences between groups and the conflict is strictly economic. d. The important ethnic differences have been minimized by the media. e. The ethnic conflicts have been caused by U.S. foreign policy which favors Serbs over Bosnians.
Ethnographic evidence has revealed that traditionally, Pawnee women worked wood, and among the Hidatsa, women made boats. Cases such as these suggest that
A. biology has nothing to do with gender roles. B. patterns of division of labor by gender are culturally general-not universal. C. the division of labor by gender is a natural characteristic of human societies. D. exceptions to cross-cultural generalization are actually the rule. E. anthropologists are overly optimistic about finding a society with perfect gender equality.