The adaptation process by which a people resist assimilation by modifying traditional culture so that they can respond to dominant pressures and also maintain some of their original identity is called __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
accommodation
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Which of the following is the fundamental characteristic of the market in non-Western societies?
a. It is located in a rural area close to where produce is grown. b. It is found only in towns where produce is grown, distributed, and consumed. c. It is an abstract concept, where goods are exchanged over the Internet. d. It is a traditional marketplace, where actual goods are exchanged. e. There is no concrete marketplace where actual goods are exchanged.
The purpose of Binford's ethnoarchaeological research among the Nunamiut Eskimo of Alaska was
a. to document Nunamiut subsistence strategies in order to determine what prehistoric adaptations in other arctic environments may have entailed. b. to determine how the kinship system of the Nunamiut differed from the kinship systems of cultures in non-marginal environments. c. to observe living people and see what remains their activities left behind in an attempt to strengthen inferences from archaeological data. d. to determine the effect of seasonality on Nunamiut hunting practices. e. to evaluate an inferential argument using archaeological data, because the systemic context can be observed independently of the archaeological data.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The lyrics for the songs in the musical Cats were almost totally from poems written by T. S. Eliot, author of The Waste Land and other landmark twentieth century books of poetry. 2. The musical, Miss Saigon, placed in part during the Vietnam war, was inspired by Puccini's opera, Madama Butterfly. 3. Jukebox musicals, using the songs of well-known songwriters or performers, are frequently produced because they are always successful.
An hypothesis regarding ancestor-descendant relationships that includes a time scale is called a:
a. cladogram. b. cladistic tree. c. phylogram tree. d. phylogenetic tree. e. hypogram tree.