What did technological determinists such as Leslie White believe?

What will be an ideal response?


They believed the technology available to a people has an enormous impact on the other aspects of a culture.

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Most anthropologists maintain that language influences a person's thinking and worldview, but language does not determine thought

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Postmortem events are often of greater interest to forensic anthropologists than they are to bioarchaeologists

a. True b. False

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All SOV languages make exclusive use of prepositions to mark location

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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In Fischer's (1958) study of phonological variation, which group was most likely to pronounce the progressive morpheme –ing as –in?

A girls B teachers C parents D boys E babies

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