This chapter includes several examples linking marriage practices with issues about property and inheritance. Describe these examples. Based on what you have learned so far about marriage, kinship, adaptive strategies, and political systems, can you suggest ways in which anthropologists could help explain relationships involving property?
What will be an ideal response?
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Homo is different from Australopithecus in that Homo is characterized by:
A. the bones of brain case being thin B. relatively small facial skeleton C. marked postorbital constriction D. enclosed eye socket
How do cognatic systems differ from unilineal systems?
a. Cognatic systems can hold property and regulate access to land. b. Cognatic systems have overlapping membership in lineages. c. Cognatic systems provide the means for acquiring honored and authoritative political roles. d. Cognatic systems organize cooperative activities.
A religious power or energy concentrated in individual or objects is called:
A) divination. B) cosmology. C) mana. D) mailu. E) communitas.
The reconstruction of life in ancient Jerusalem is a job for
a. paleoanthropologists. b. forensic anthropologists. c. prehistoric archaeologists. d. historic archaeologists.