The terms Female Genital Mutilation and Female Circumcision reflect __________
a. different procedures that are conducted on women in some cultures
b. different attitudes toward the same procedure
c. a medical versus non-medical understanding of a cultural practice
d. the need for more precise terms in anthropological research
b
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Most present-day foragers
A. primarily fish for subsistence. B. are wholly dependent on welfare supplied by state-level societies. C. live largely in isolation from food-producing neighbors and the influence of the state. D. live in marginal environments. E. adopted foraging after abandoning more advanced subsistence strategies.
Features that first appeared in the distant past and are shared by a large number of populations are called:
A. autapomorphic features B. shared (synapomorphic) derived features C. shared (symplesiomorphic) ancestral features D. archetypes
As humans adapt to their environment they also alter it, often dramatically. Therefore, the text uses the term ____ instead of adaptation
a. interaction b. cooperation c. opposition d. socialization
What kinds of information are transmitted through the gesture–call system?
a. reason and abstract thought b. emotions and intentions c. actions and motivations d. warfare and aggression