Which of the following is a reason that classes tend to be informally endogamous in the United States?
a. Families of the same class have the same interests in contracting marriages.
b. Most people get married after school is completed.
c. People of the same class tend to associate with each other.
d. People tend to marry someone who lives within one hundred miles of them.
Answer: c
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Which of the following correctly characterizes the Hopi growing of blue corn?
a. When they farm blue corn, they live their religious understanding of the world. b. They have mixed feelings when they grow blue corn because, though it is necessary to make traditional foods, it is associated with impurity and evil. c. Only women can grow blue corn, because only women possess generative earth powers. d. Hopi look down upon those who grow blue corn, because it represents both poverty and old-fashioned values. e. Hopi spend little time growing corn but much time growing beans, because corn has little religious significance.
Lévi-Strauss's approach emphasizes the importance of _______
a. certain codes, programmed into the human mind, which make it impossible for humans to learn more than one culture b. certain codes, programmed into the human mind, which are responsible for shaping cultures c. cultural traits, which universally have the same function d. social roles and institutions within society e. universal social roles and institutions
The anthropological approach to the study of political systems and organization is global and comparative and includes nonstates as well as the states and nation-states usually studied by political scientists.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The Nuna and Bwa peoples of Burkina Faso utilize the __________ in their rituals
a. visual and performing arts b. rites of passage c. gifts from the gods d. Judeo-Christian creation story