Power refers to the ability of groups to impose their will upon others
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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The indigenous civilizations of the Americas relied more on stone for their everyday tools for longer than other parts of the world because:
a. they were less innovative. b. they did not have the raw materials to make bronze. c. they were peaceful and did not need the bronze for weapons because they had eliminated warfare. d. of the ready availability and suitability of obsidian. e. the civilizations of the Old World were more creative than the civilizations of the New World.
Saying that every society has an economic system means that ______
a. every society has a system of standardized currency b. every society has markets c. each receives goods and services based on his or her capacity to pay d. every society has worked out a patterned way of ensuring that people get what they need for survival e. every society is now part of the globalized economy
Traditional ethnographic research focused on the single community or culture, which was treated as more or less isolated and unique in time and space; however,
A. all such single communities have already been studied, so anthropologists have very limited project choices. B. there has been a shift within the discipline toward recognition of ongoing and inescapable flows of people, technology, images, and information. C. the American Anthropological Association still requires its members to strive toward research focused on one single community. D. this is no longer true, nor has it ever really been true, a fact that renders classic ethnographies historical curiosities and not serious academic works. E. there has been a shift within the discipline against the concept of culture and toward the individual as the only true, reliable unit of analysis.
In the Trobriand Islands, kinship follows the male line
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.