As culture traits move from one society to another:
a. Their meanings tend to remain unchanged.
b. They tend to lose their meanings.
c. Their meanings tend to change.
d. They lose their logical integration into culture.
e. They tend to become less and less important to the society in which they originated.
C
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Which of the following was the most important find at the Zhoukoudian caves in China?
A. The skeleton of an auroch, an animal the size of a North American moose, resembling an elk B. The well-preserved skeletal remains of Sima de los Huesos and Sima del Elefante C. The remains of the early hominins, today designated as Homo erectus D. The bones of dryopithecines, one of the early apes of the Miocene epoch
Specialization in agriculture may result in all of the following EXCEPT:
a. increased tendency to grow cash crops and buy food in the marketplace. b. increased reliance on a limited number of crop varieties. c. development of increasing surplus of crops. d. decreased importance of the family owned/operated farm. e. less specialization of labor.
Describe the cultural materialist perspective and an example of the perspective applied to a cultural practice
What will be an ideal response?
Which of these statements is the best summary of the anthropologist's comparative perspective on the functional theory of inequality?
a. The elite are valued because they provide essential and demanding services for society at large. b. The functions the elite serve are merely illusionary, not truly necessary. c. The elite provide some valuable services for the society as a whole but some are illusionary. d. The functionalist theory of social inequality is better than the conflict theory.