In the Sioux creation story, the first men and women were created from __________
a. a white and a yellow eagle
b. the earth
c. a white and a yellow ear of corn
d. two buckskin blankets
Answer: b
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A group whose members and others think of their way of life as in some significant way different from that of other people in the larger society
a. minority b. subculture c. ethnicity d. deviants
The evidence of writing during the Shang dynasty in China was typically associated with
a. recording economic transactions
b. the process of divination or prophecy
c. religious texts
d. records of the succession of royal families
e. property records
Among horticulturalists with matrilineal descent and matrilocality,
A. female status tends to be high. B. gender and sex become indistinguishable. C. women rarely inherit any property and are therefore at a disadvantage in comparison to their brothers. D. women leaders are only symbolic, because men tend to have the true decision-making power. E. women tend to have high status, but only within the domestic sphere.