The practice of female infanticide and a shortage of females is the best explanation for polyandrous marriage
a. True
b. False
ANSWER:
False
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Band- and tribal-level societies actively promote craft and task specialization
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Discuss the various hypotheses concerning the origin of food production.
What will be an ideal response?
Traditionally among Hidatsa, women made boats. Pawnee women worked wood. Among the Mbuti "pygmies" women hunt. Cases such as these suggest that
a. swing activities usually are done by women. b. biology has nothing to do with gender roles c. anthropologists are overly optimistic about finding a society with perfect gender equality. d. patterns of division of labor by gender are cultural generalities - not universals. e. exceptions to cross-cultural generalization are actually the rule.
As industrialization increasingly affects rural farming communities,
A) peasant handcraft production is replaced by factory goods. B) wage labor replaces reciprocity and family-oriented farming. C) farm production is focused on cash crops rather than food for consumption. D) peasants buy in the market what they used to produce at home. E) all of the above.