What does Laura Nader mean when she says that the beauty industry and many plastic surgeons are involved in "standardizing" bodies?
a. They focus on the cultural body, treating others as in need of changes and adjustments to be culturally normal.
b. They are working to sell cosmetics only to people who meet cultural ideals and do not address their markets toother women
c. They are not interested in selling their products anywhere but in the United States.
d. They work together and have the same advisory boards so that there will be no competition between eachother's companies.
e. They are working on cloning experiences so that future people will have a perfect body.
a
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Anthropologist have found that kinship in industrial states
a. often becomes solidified and molded into large descent groups called oligoclans b. becomes much more important and clearly defined than in preindustrial societies c. becomes less important as new structures and organizations replace and begin to perform many of the functions associated with kinship in preindustrial societies d. tends to remain about the same as is found in chiefdom societies
Prehensile tails are found in New World monkeys but not Old World monkeys
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Extraction sites are used for:
A. burial of the dead. B. gathering raw materials. C. removal of teeth. D. building residential structures.
How is medical anthropology different from Western medicine?
a. It approaches the study of human health and sickness as biological and cultural phenomena. b. It approaches human disease as a function of biology and culture. c. It considers disease to be primarily a cultural function. d. It approaches biological functions from a cross-cultural perspective using ethnomedicine as the correct solution. e. It is the noninterventional and noninvasive study of disease, illness, and medicine.