Define pan-tribal mechanisms
What will be an ideal response?
These are mechanisms such as clans, age grades, and secret societies found in tribal
societies that cut across kinship lines and integrate all the local segments of the tribe
into a larger whole.
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The worldwide communications network contributes to
A) political change. B) economic change. C) cultural change. D) A and C only. E) all of the above.
Which of the following is true of the space-time systematics of North American archaeology?
a. Space-time systematics is still the main focus of archaeological research, as basic spatial and temporal changes in material culture remain undocumented for much of North America. b. Space-time systematics has been largely worked out, and no longer preoccupies archaeology as it did in the first half of the 20th century. c. Space-time systematics is not very useful for North American archaeology, because material culture remained unchanged for long periods of time in many places. d. While space-time systematics has dominated European archaeology for the past century, its utility for North American archaeology is just now being recognized. e. Space-time systematics has not been largely worked out, so it preoccupies archaeology more than it did in the first half of the 20th century.
Pierre Bourdieu argues that:
a. ?each culture is patterned differently and has a different personality. b. each individual shares the generative principles of their culture and also has unique experiences. c. ?there are two types of social structures and individuals conform to the type in which they are socialized. d. social markers of difference occur equally across cultures and to all individuals.
Culture exclusively concerns observable data
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false