Like priests, shamans are full-time religious specialists who make their living conducting healings and other rituals
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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Sapir and Whorf argued that the grammatical categories of different languages lead their speakers to think about things in particular ways. However, studies on the differences between female and male Americans with regard to the color terms they use suggest that
A. women spend more money on status goods than do men. B. women and men are equally sensitive to the marketing tactics of the cosmetic industry. C. in support of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, different languages produce different ways of thinking. D. contrary to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it might be more reasonable to say that changes in culture produce changes in language and thought, rather than the reverse. E. changes in the U.S. economy, society, and culture had no impact on the use of color terms, or on any other terms for that matter.
About 12,000 years ago, what environmental changes created a shift in food production?
a. The climate of the north grew colder b. Tundra and the large herd animals that they supported spread throughout the Old World c. Glaciers melted and the sea levels rose d. Deserts replaced forests e. The fish disappeared from the ocean
Agriculture commonly involves use of all of the following except:
a. plows b. irrigation c. fertilizer d. digging sticks
Higher primates first appeared in the __________ epoch
a. early Eocene b. late Oligocene c. late Eocene d. late Pleistocene