The major difference between animism and animatism has to do with whether the supernatural force that occupies an entity is:

a. personal or impersonal and without identity.
b. natural or supernatural.
c. a god or an ancestral spirit.
d. a priest or a shaman.
e. an example of witchcraft or of divination.


a

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Anthropologists agree that the Internet and the spread of modern technology are successfully erasing all cultural differences.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Inuit tattoos are __________

a. private b. to announce something about the bearer c. for the Gods d. done as a puberty ritual

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A trait's heritability is the proportion of its variation that:

a. is genetic. b. cannot be explained. c. is the product of genes and environment. d. results from the environment alone.

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