A young man of Jewish affiliation moves to New York City to find a job. Seeing no reason to "go it alone," he calls everyone he knows from both his mother's and father's side of the family, and attends various meetings to which he is invited. He is invited to multiple events and gatherings by virtue of his being related to various ancestors on both parents' side. These groups support him when he
runs out of money and help him find an apartment and a job. We can say that he is a member of either a bilateral descent group or which of the following?
a. Patrilineal
b. Matrilineal
c. Unilineal
d. Cognatic
e. Ambilineal
e
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b. Because they lack residential unity, they use symbols for common identification. c. Because they are often groups that speak different languages and have different customs, this is their point of common identity. d. They use symbols as a way of creating cultural status that has symmetry with natural class divisions.
Neoevolutionist Leslie White defined cultural evolution to mean that technology
a. had a greater capacity to inflict harm on groups of people. b. had an increased likelihood of causing environmental degradation. c. was able to harness a greater amount of energy per person per year. d. was increasingly complex in its components and the skill needed to run it.
Anthropology has sought directly to do each of the following except:
a. document the practice of culture. b. impose a Western and modern approach to life. c. document disappearing cultural practices. d. reconstruct traditional ways of life. e. educate its audience on the importance of culture.
Cultural resource management is an example of applied
A. ethnology. B. biological anthropology. C. archaeology. D. linguistic anthropology. E. ethnography.