The scientific community was eventually shown to be correct in their rejection of the hominid status of Pithecanthropus erectus as proposed by Eugene Dubois
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
FALSE
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In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that the UDLP project to teach women how to raise and care for goats, and to incorporate milk into their children's food, was
a. flatly rejected by the village leaders. b. so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate. c. too difficult for the women of the villages to undertake. d. failed due to the theft of goats by people in other villages.
Irving Hallowell found that:
a. abnormality is the development of a culturally disapproved delusional system b. normal is when someone does not stand out as sanctified within a culture c. mental illnesses are found primarily in Western cultures and where stress levels are high d. individuals in foraging societies have the highest amounts of culture-bound syndromes
The studies of talkativeness described in the textbook have found that
A young men talk more than older men. B young women talk more than older women. C men and women talk the same amount. D men talk more than women. E women talk more than men.
Polyandry:
a. is one of the most common forms of marriage in the world today. b. allows a society to avoid the division of small plots of land among sons. c. leads to competition and especially sexual jealousy among husbands. d. is practiced widely in Africa and South America. e. leads to significantly higher birth rates in families.