The Western ideal that each partner should freely choose a spouse is followed by all cultures except Asian cultures
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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Why do anthropologists question the idea that present-day foragers can be compared to Paleolithic foragers?
A. There are no present-day foragers. B. The types of foraging vary so widely that few generalizations can be drawn. C. Paleolithic foragers were prelinguistic. D. Present-day foragers have been in contact with food-producing and industrialized societies for long periods of time and all live within nation-states that inevitably affect their livelihood. E. Paleolithic foragers were not Homo sapiens.
According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often
a. failed to recognize malnutrition as the primary cause of illness among poor babies. b. refused to examine poor babies. c. prescribed drugs that their mothers cannot afford to buy for their sick babies. d. hospitalized poor sick babies because the infants' mothers could not care for them.
Applied anthropology is not as relevant today as it was 50 years ago
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In some state societies today, women hold the majority of leadership positions in the government
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false