In band societies, ________ determine the amount of respect or status individuals enjoy
A. ranks ascribed at birth
B. culturally valued personal attributes
C. possessions and their monetary value
D. labor amounts extracted spouses and children
E. genealogical relationships to apical ancestors
B
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Which of the following is a primary weakness of French Structuralism?
a. It does not focus on interesting cultural questions. b. There is too much fieldwork associated with this theory and very little application. c. The theory takes account solely of European cultures and is ethnocentric. d. Structuralism is too psychological in its approach. e. It is a theory that cannot be tested empirically.
Which of the following is a common characteristic of the "Eskimo" kinship terminology system?
A) It always operates in unilineal descent systems. B) The terminology for aunts and uncles on the mother's side differs from the father's. C) Different terms distinguish between parents and the parents' siblings. D) The term for "aunt" and "mother" are often the same.
Metaphors through which the Kwakwaka'wakw understand and describe their life come from:
A) war.? B) ?romantic love. C) ?eating. D) ?sex.
As pointed out in your textbook, two anthropologists remark, " an overall decline in the quality—and probably in the length—of human life associated with the adoption of agriculture."
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false