Compare and contrast the different strategies that leaders used to legitimate their positions of power in two Old World states.

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John Blumenbach was the first European scientist to classify humans into races

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Social movements worldwide now use indigenous people as a self-identifying label in their quests for social, cultural, and political rights.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Public-interest anthropologists should not participate in making policy decisions

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Which of the following statements best illustrates the significance of culture for most anthropologists?

A) Anthropologists agree on the basic characteristics of culture, but disagree on the relative importance of those characteristics and on how they study them. B) Anthropologists agree on the basic characteristics of culture and on the importance of each of those characteristics, but they do not all study observable behavior. C) Anthropologists see culture distinctly and do not agree on the basic characteristics of culture. D) Anthropologists study observable behavior, but only a few of them study cultural attributes. E) Anthropologists study observable behavior, but the meanings and understandings that people attach to their behavior is not important to anthropologists.

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