According to the Yanomam? creation myth, their original ancestors were created from:

a) tree branches.
b) a jaguar.
c) the blood of the moon.
d) snakes.


ANS: C

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During the last glaciation in Eurasia:

a. hunting was impossible because there were no animals in the region. b. Neandertals became extinct. c. the entire area was permanently covered with ice-sheets. d. a warming trend at about 30,000 ya partially melted the glacial ice. e. human habitation was impossible.

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________ refers to the rapid spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others, or its imposition on other cultures.

A. Colonialism B. Cultural imperialism C. Conquest D. Diasporation E. Symbolic domination

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Describe two examples from the text of the connection between language and a person's or group's sense of, or expression of, identity

What will be an ideal response?

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Why are binary oppositions significant to French Structuralism?

a. They are believed to be the primary mode of human thought. b. Binary oppositions are the most stable way that societies are structured. c. Dual oppositions are based on dual gender roles (male-female). d. Structuralist theory argues that it is through opposition that society overcomes ethnocentrism. e. Binary oppositions are not significant to French Structuralism.

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