What are two criticisms associated with the Human Relations Area Files database?

What will be an ideal response?


It takes cultural data out of context and it collates multiple perspectives from different time periods and does not take into account how the different authors and historical eras affect the data.

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A field of cultural anthropology that focuses on studying the lives of people living in cities or urban neighborhoods

a. interpretive anthropology b. reflexive anthropology c. ecological anthropology d. urban anthropology

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The role of the environment as a significant factor in evolutionary change was first recognized and stated by

a. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. b. Georges Cuvier. c. Thomas Malthus. d. Charles Darwin. e. Charles Lyell.

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Which of these sites are located in the Near East?

a. Skh?l Cave b. Qzafzeh Cave c. Ordos Cave d. All of the above e. a and b only

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A very significant change in guerilla tactics in ethnic conflicts since the early 1970s is

a. the emergence of paramilitary groups. b. the increased targeting of civilian groups. c. the use of national armies against paramilitary groups. d. that guerilla warfare only occurs in a small region in the Middle East.

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