Which theory suggests that the incest taboo was created to ensure that individuals would marry members of other families, thereby creating ties that held communities together?

A) Westermarck's childhood-familiarity theory
B) Malinowski's family-disruption theory
C) White and Lévi-Strauss’s cooperation theory
D) Freud’s psychoanalytic theory


C) White and Lévi-Strauss’s cooperation theory

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a. moieties b. totems c. kindred d. lineages e. clans

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Cultures restrict the choice of marriage partners by such practices as endogamy, the levirate, and the sororate

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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While burins were occasionally found in Neandertal took kits, they became common during the Upper Paleolithic as people increase the implements they made from bone, antler, and wood

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The earliest artifact sites are from the Gona and Bouri areas, dating to

a. 7 mya b. 2.6 mya c. 500,000 years ago d. 1.5 mya e. 5 mya

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