Define pan-tribal mechanisms
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
These are mechanisms such as clans, age grades, and secret societies found in tribal societies that cut across kinship lines and integrate all the local segments of the tribe into a larger whole.
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The human skeleton is a remarkable storehouse of information. Discuss some of the ways that archaeologists study the skeleton and the kinds of information they obtain.
What will be an ideal response?
One study compared the health of children born of familial incest with children of the same mother born of non-incestuous unions and found that __________.
A) both groups of children had high rates of genetic abnormalities B) the incestuous group had much higher rates of genetic abnormalities than the non-incestuous group C) the non-incestuous group had much higher rates of genetic abnormalities than the incestuous group D) neither group of children had high rates of genetic abnormalities
All creationists believe that __________
a. species are fixed b. the world is only 4,000 years old c. a single divine creator made the world d. today's geology is the result of Noah's flood
________ is the ethnographic present.
A. The period before Westernization B. The dates that include cultural contact C. The dates that the anthropologist was living in the culture D. The date the ethnography was published E. The period that documents cultural change