What social characteristics are associated with foragers and complex foragers?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1, Define food collection (as opposed to food production)
2, Cover settlement patterns, population size, and land use
3, Discuss social stratification and division of labor

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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

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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The cargo system found in Maya Indian villages and towns in highland Guatemala is an example of a:

a. leveling mechanism b. prestige economy c. conspicuous consumption d. informal economy

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Which of the following statements about kinship is incorrect? a. Kinship terminology systems vary considerably across cultures

b. Kinship terminology systems reflect the positions individuals occupy within their respective societies. c. Factors such as gender and genealogical differences are distinguished but are not emphasized in kinship systems. d. Kinship systems are ways of organizing people who are relatives into different kinds of groups.

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Aboriginal peoples in Polynesia refer to a diffuse, impersonal, incorporeal power or force as:

a. animism. b. mana. c. magic. d. kachina.

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