This chapter begins with a bold claim: Anthropologists study human beings wherever and whenever they find them. Yet there are limits to when and where anthropologists can carry out their work. Can you think of any? How might your consideration of these limits affect how you would design an anthropological study?
What will be an ideal response?
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Sites like Ohalo II demonstrate that some food-collecting communities experienced economic changes as long ago as the Last Glacial Maximum, which led to
a. The use of a small range of wild plants and no animals as food. b. The use of a wide range of wild plants and no animals as food. c. The use of a wide range of wild plants and animals as food. d. The use of a small range of wild plants and animals as food. e. The demise of human populations in the regions affected.
Compare the hypothesized preagricultural diet with the diet consumed by most Americans today
What will be an ideal response?
Even before a particular performance begins, a prepared member of an audience will probably want to know something about which of these?
a. the art of theatre b. the play itself c. the contents of the program d. the inside of the theatre auditorium e. all of the above
Royal endogamy among Hawaiians functioned to limit the number of conflicts about royal succession-an explanation that serves as an example of the latent function of a social custom.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)