In a society where kinship is important, what are the primary roles of the lineage group?
What will be an ideal response?
It serves as a corporation owning property, organizing productive activities, distributing goods and labor power, assigning status, and regulating relations with other groups.
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The application of industrial technology and chemicals to farming in order to increase productivity is called __________
a. horticulture b. intensive agriculture c. centralization d. industrial agriculture
Which of the following anthropologists would be most interested in studying the role of the mudyi tree (with its white, sticky sap) for girls' puberty rites among the Ndembu of East Africa?
A) Margaret Mead B) Victor Turner C) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown D) Bronislaw Malinowski E) Franz Boas
How is a bound morpheme different from a free morpheme?
What will be an ideal response?
When brothers live with their parents, as well as their own nuclear families, this is called
a. a stem family. b. matrilocally extended family. c. the levirate. d. patrilocally extended family.