Anthropologists have explained the lack of parents’ emotional interaction and playfulness with infants in some preindustrial societies as __________.
A) an indication that parents are too busy foraging for food to play with their kids
B) a need to create emotional distance due to high infant mortality rates in these societies
C) a sign of bad parenting by uneducated adults
D) a more adaptive alternative to beating their children
B) a need to create emotional distance due to high infant mortality rates in these societies
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Concepts of individuals as connected to one another, related to other people, with a focus on group needs rather than individual inner feelings, opinions, and attitudes are referred to as the _______________
a. private self b. public self c. independent self d. interdependent self
Which of the following is not one of the four base pairs?
a. glucosamine b. cytosine c. adenine d. thymine
The symbolic nature of culture:
a. Facilitates cross-cultural communication, because all cultures use the same (or very similar) symbols to mean the same things. b. Can create considerable misunderstanding between people from different cultures. c. Is now known to be not as significant as anthropologists once believed. d. Is easily discernable from the archaeological record. e. Does not affect the material traces of behavior.
Name four characteristics (or generalizations) about foraging societies
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