Which of the following was dismantled little by little in the People’s Republic of China after the 1980s?
a. Kinship lineages
b. Collective property
c. ?Centralized government
d. Public education
ANSWER:
b
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An essential difference between nineteenth century theories of cultural evolution and those proposed in the 1950s was
A) that nineteenth century evolutionists believed that societies evolved, and twentieth century evolutions believed that they devolved. B) that the twentieth century evolutionists did not believe that European societies are necessarily superior to others. C) that twentieth century evolutionists believed that Africans rather than Europeans show the greatest potential for cultural development. D) that the twentieth century evolutionists believed that cultural advance is based on biology rather than technology. E) none of the above.
Egalitarian relationships between genders __________
a. existed in some non-Western societies, but were undermined by the effects of colonialism b. have never existed in any known society c. have been most closely realized in European and American traditions d. are unlikely to occur because of biological differences between the sexes
Exogamy is a(n):
a. requirement that persons marry outside of their group. b. rule that establishes where a couple must live following marriage. c. form of marriage in which a woman marries two or more brothers. d. ?incest taboo that is common in matrilineal societies.
According to Marvin Harris's hypothesis about pork prohibitions, traditional societies that keep and eat pigs __________
A. have greater access to herbal medicines B. are more likely to live in or near forests C. probably originated in desert climates D. bathe and clean them on a regular basis