Several years ago, the Italian tourism minister commented on the "typical characteristics" of Germans, causing a huge controversy as to whether or not a people could be labeled. This labeling and grouping is called:
a. modal personality.
b. national character.
c. stereotype.
d. group personality.
e. independence training.
b
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In the horticultural society of the Jivaro in Peru, women performed most agricultural labor and as a result __________
a. they were treated as mere laborers by men b. have higher status than Yanomamo women c. control the distribution of food resources d. suffer from low status because labor is denigrated in Jivaro society
Meiosis
a. is the cell division process in somatic cells. b. replaces cells during growth and development. c. permits healing of injured tissue. d. results in two identical daughter cells. e. produces gametes.
Alan Lomax’s cross-cultural research on music found:
a. almost no similarities from one society to another. b. some broad correlations between various aspects of music and a culture’s level of subsistence. c. that music in egalitarian, small-scale societies was essentially similar to music in complex, industrialized societies. d. that music in small-scale societies had nonrepetitious texts. e. that music cross-culturally involves precise articulation.
Which of the following best describes the nature of Maya political organization?
a. an empire centered at Tikal b. territorial states encompassing many large centers c. two independent polities in the lowland and highland areas d. independent city states and associated local centers e. a loose confederation of allied city-states