Which is NOT true about human language?
a. It uses symbols that refer to concepts, people, objects, etc.
b. It is limited to communicating about the past.
c. It is partly based on the human ability to think symbolically.
d. It contains written and spoken symbols.
e. It contains arbitrary sets of symbols.
b
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Among pastoral nomads, wealth is usually measured in __________
A) animals B) the amount of land people own C) the number of children people have D) the number of wives a man has
Which of the following statements about nonstate societies is true?
A. Warfare is conducted by professional armies. B. Political institutions are totally separate from economic institutions. C. Social control is maintained mostly through physical coercion. D. Economic, political, and religious activities are often interrelated. E. All political power is based on religion
Anthropologists tend to agree that culture
a. is responsible for the differences in thinking and behaving between different groups. b. is better developed and easier to understand in industrialized societies. c. is a matter of individual preferences and attitudes. d. cannot be studied in a systematic way.
The anthropologist associated with explaining gendered speech as affecting people’s ideas about “concrete objects in the world” is
a. Franz Boas b. Edward Sapir c. Laura Nader d. Ruth Benedict e. Lera Boroditsky