One weakness of cross-cultural studies is that ethnographic reporting across cultures may be inconsistent
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: T
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Sociolinguists have found that societies that maintain social inequalities and hierarchies often have different forms of the same language that are used for addressing higher or lower status individuals, kin versus nonkin, and males versus females
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
What is a primary innovation?
a. A modification made to an older object. b. An object or idea that is genuinely new and different. c. An innovation recently drawn from another culture. d. An object which has yet to be discovered. e. An object that has been rediscovered.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Pageant wagons were the major staging technique throughout western Europe. 2. Mystery plays typically told the lives of Christian saints. 3. A confraternity was a kind of religious guild; it often participated in the production of plays.
In anthropology, history, and literature, the field of postcolonial studies has gained prominence since the 1970s. Postcolonial refers to
A. the study of the interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized. B. an up-and-coming subfield in sociology. C. the study of social movements that, instead of rejecting colonialism, actually embraced it and transformed it for their own benefit. D. a moral stance toward oppressed peoples. E. the period succeeding the slave trade.