Anthropologists have pursued studies of all of the following blood sports, EXCEPT:
a) cock fighting.
b) bull fighting.
c) professional boxing.
d) pit bull contests.
Ans: c) professional boxing.
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a. True b. False
One of the principal criticisms of the culture-and-personality school is that __________
A. there is no evidence for a biological link between culture and personality B. it tends to assume greater uniformity in personality than actually exists in society C. the investigation of personality should be done by psychologists, not anthropologists D. individual behavior is more important than the behavior of a whole society
Finely carved Hopewell effigy pipes have been interpreted as ritual artifacts. Robert L. Hall argued from ethnographic analogy in the late 1970s that these pipes did not
a. represent ritual weapons (atlatls). b. function as peace pipes functioned historically. c. help maintain relationships between communities, reducing regional differences and promoting contact and communication. d. correspond to the curvature of an atlatl. e. have the same functions as the calumet (ritual arrow) of historic times.
"Slash and burn" agriculture is also known as:
A) ?settled agricultural production. B) ?traditional agriculture. C) ?pre-industrial agriculture. D) ?swidden agriculture.