The forms that people give to their material objects are
a. determined primarily by the materials available.
b. the result of the interaction of utilitarian function and aesthetic style.
c. completely arbitrary and spontaneous.
d. very similar across cultures within any given historical period.
b
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Cognatic descent is especially common among which people groups?
a. Contemporary Western European countries b. The indigenous peoples of the American Southwest c. Polynesians and the Maori of New Zealand d. East Asians and Sub-Saharan Africans
Yanomami society is one of the few matriarchies that have been documented by anthropologists.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Why do scientists avoid saying that a hypothesis or theory is "proven"?
a. New data could falsify hypotheses or theories. b. Scientists are worried about their reputations. c. Only scientific laws and paradigms can be proven. d. It takes too much work to "prove" something, so it rarely occurs in science.
More than 90 percent of all cultures using the Omaha terminological system are
a. cognatic. b. patrilineal. c. matrilineal. d. bilateral.