A central function of kinship in almost every society is that it provides for:
a. The basis of government.
b. The transfer of property between generations.
c. Recruitment for jobs.
d. Loans of money.
e. The division of friends from enemies.
B
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A form of seasonal mobility, usually referring to pastoral peoples who move their livestock herds to locations with lush pastureland is referred to as:
a. migration. b. sedentism. c. nomadism. d. pastoralism.
Outbreeding, which occurs in human populations with strong incest taboos, has a number of positive genetic consequences
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What is the central role of museum anthropologists, regardless of their positions?
A) public education B) fund-raising C) scholarship D) policy making
The first colonists of the New World:
A. were Homo neanderthalensis. B. are difficult to recognize archaeologically because they probably had only bone and wood tools. C. were escaping from the Neolithic revolution in the Old World. D. probably crossed the Pacific in reed boats. E. probably followed big game across Beringia from Siberia.