Competition among co-wives in a polygynous household is reduced when all of the following occur EXCEPT:
a. when sororal polygyny is practiced.
b. when wives are allowed to participate in the choice of spouse.
c. when they are given separate living quarters.
d. when the husband does not get involved in the affairs of his wives.
e. when a social hierarchy is established between the wives.
d
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A. portable objects that people made in the past. B. fossil bones. C. pyramids. D. all of the above. E. none of the above.
Sociolinguistics is helpful to anthropologists in understanding culture because:
a. People's speech varies depending on their position in a social structure or social relationship. b. Speech is a constant, while social structure is variable. c. Speech is always consistent within a social group. d. The ways in which people speak determine their position in the social structure. e. The distribution of irregular verbs can indicate the relative importance of different actions in a cultural system
After a devastating tornado, a church met to pray for strength and unity during the crisis. This is an example of a rite of purification
a. True b. False
Linguistic displacement is the
A. ability to use the rules of language to produce entirely new expressions. B. ability to talk about things that are not present. C. lexical difference between a protolanguage and a daughter language. D. ability to respond to environmental stimuli. E. linguistic dimension of culture shock.