Central to most intervention philosophies is the idea that modernization, Westernization, and industrialization will bring long-term benefits to local groups
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
TRUE
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In the text, competition between monkeys and birds over the same fruit source is referred to as:
A. contest competition. B. intraspecific competition. C. interspecific competition. D. scramble competition.
When we describe a culture as being polychronic, we mean that people:
a. feel comfortable engaging in a number of activities simultaneously. b. tend to be extremely punctual. c. prefer to engage in only one activity at a time. d. believe in the saying “time is money.” e. are extremely ethnocentric.
Anthropologists once thought that domestication would happen almost automatically once people gained sufficient knowledge of plants and animals and their reproductive habits to figure out how to make domestication work. They now know that
A. they were correct, thanks to recently uncovered evidence in Chile. B. aside from this knowledge, an emerging state is necessary for domestication to occur. C. some other trigger is needed to start and sustain the process of domestication. D. the will to overcome a lazy lifestyle is even more important than such knowledge. E. aside from this knowledge, domestication requires the invention of the wheel.
People perform religious rituals as
a. a way of invoking supernatural beings to control those forces over which they feel they have no control. b. a practice with as little emotion as possible, because they seldom really believe rituals are effective. c. a way of demonstrating the strong control they have over their own lives. d. a way to demonstrate social importance and validation for their lives. e. a way to obtain political, social, and economic power.