The displacement of Native Americans from their tribal lands in the United States in order to make the land available to white settlers was __________
A. accomplished mostly by outlaws and hired guns
B. a formal policy of the U.S. government
C. a myth invented by radical Indian activists
D. undertaken mostly by foreign immigrants
Answer: B
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How are the four subfields of U.S. anthropology unified?
A. The subfields really are not unified; their grouping into one discipline is a historical accident. B. Each subfield studies the human capacity for language. C. Each subfield studies human biological variability. D. Each subfield studies human variation through time and space. E. Each subfield studies human genetic variation through time and space.
Many have suggested that the United States and other developed countries are now transitioning from __________ to __________.
A) industrialism; post-industrialism B) domestic production; industrialism C) communalism; domestic production D) post-industrialism; postmodernism
Owen Lovejoy's model for the evolution of hominid bipedalism is
A) refuted by the fact that both males and females are bipeds B) supported by evidence of male-female pair bonds in modern humans C) refuted by the sexual dimorphism in body size among early hominids D) supported by the occurrence of monogyny among modern humans E) based on a 1950's model of human behavior
All of the following are associated with polygyny except:
a. commonly found in societies in which women do the bulk of cultivation work. b. wives have a strong bargaining power within the household. c. women are normally much younger than the men they marry. d. frequently found in societies that have suffered violence and in which there are high male combat deaths. e. shows the lower status of men than women in these societies.