In Native American societies, people became Two-Spirits by __________
a. birth order; third children were chosen if they were male
b. birth order; third children were chosen if they were female
c. personal inclination only
d. personal inclination, spiritual calling, or parental selection
Answer: d
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Linguistic anthropologist Robbins Burling argues that some of the earliest instances of language use might have been:
a. generating calls, rather than comprehending them. b. comprehending calls, rather than generating them. c. closing calls, rather than opening them. d. inventing folktales and tall tales.
What does applied research in anthropology seek to do?
What will be an ideal response?
From the perspective of ____, every culture is a unique product of its own historical events and circumstances
a. historical materialism b. functional structuralism c. historical particularism d. unilineal evolutionism