What advantages does dowry confer on a woman?
What will be an ideal response?
She gains more influence within her marriage, she is able to influence the choice of husband, she has some financial security after the death of her spouse, and it affords some protection against desertion by the male.
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The Maniqui is an Amazonian tributary that
a. meanders through Bolivia's tropical lowlands to the frontier town of San Borja. b. is used to carry cut timber up to La Paz in the highlands of Bolivia. c. is the main mode of transport used by commercial logging companies. d. winds through clear cut areas of the Chimanes forest.
Rules of endogamy in Hawaiian chiefdoms actually resulted in sibling marriages
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
______________ is the development of a new species
a. Mutation b. Segregation c. Crossing-over d. Speciation
The legal and scientific debates that arose after the discovery in 1996 of a skeleton dubbed Kennewick Man illustrates all of the following EXCEPT
A. that sometimes questions of ownership of and access to physical and archaeological remains place anthropologists and indigenous people in opposing camps. B. the ineffectiveness of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which has no real legal or political recognition. C. the often complicated ethical implications of unearthing human remains and attempting to reconstruct their physical and cultural identities. D. the fact that not everyone appreciates anthropology all the time. E. that scientific knowledge is not politically or culturally neutral.