What is the term for the marital exchange in which the bride's family or kin group provides substantial gifts when their daughter marries?
A. polygamy
B. brideservice
C. bridewealth
D. progeny price
E. dowry
Answer: E
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A. chiefdom status systems are based on differential access to resources. B. chiefdoms lack socioeconomic stratification and stratum endogamy. C. chiefdoms lack ascribed statuses. D. chiefdoms have permanent political regulation. E. chiefdoms have full-time religious specialists.
Which of these statements about the incest taboo is FALSE?
a. Biomedical knowledge is the primary explanation for the incest taboo. b. Incest taboos are cultural universals. c. The specific relationships to which the taboos apply vary from people to people. d. Mating between parents and children is universally taboo.
Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal
A. varies depending on whether it refers to politics in a Western or non-Western context. B. is different from the one typically used in current U.S. politics, in which liberal is the opposite of conservative. C. is a Protestant ideology. D. has no implications for the relationship between economics and the state. E. is a more accurate use of the term than the one Americans typically hear in current talk radio.
Neandertals migrated into parts of ________ during glacial times
a. Germany b. Italy c. Israel d. Romania