According to George Lakoff, categories don't exist in the world independently of people. Rather categories are the result of the ways in which we interact with the world
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Paleoanthropologist Christopher Stringer once noted that "absence of evidence does not necessarily prove evidence of absence." Why is this important to keep in mind when assessing the use of fossils to study the past?
A. Taphonomy is not a true science, because it lacks accuracy. B. The fields of paleontology and paleoanthropology have established a chronology of the evolution of life. C. The failure to find a fossil species in a particular place does not necessarily mean that it did not live there. D. Paleontology and paleoanthropology are humanistic disciplines. E. The fossil record is a complete sample of all the plants and animals that ever lived.
The anthropological perspective does not:
a. look at the diversity of the human experience. b. narrow our viewpoint of how our species has evolved through time and space. c. help to avoid ethnocentric pitfalls. d. offer a wider appreciation through time and space. e. give a wider appreciation of the human experience.
The preference for male children:
a. is universal. b. doesn't really exist and only appears in the anthropological literature because of the male bias in anthropology. c. is only found in food collecting (foraging) societies. d. is much more common than the rare preference for female children. e. ultimately creates a healthy and balanced society.
In survey research, a sample should
A. include anyone who will be interviewed by the ethnographer. B. be constituted to allow inferences about the larger population. C. be invariant. D. target only one social, cultural, or environmental factor that influences behavior. E. include the entire population in question.