The marriage preference rule in which a widow marries her deceased husband’s brother is the _____
a. serial monogamy
b. sororate
c. levirate
d. ghost marriage
Answer: c
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Which of these statements best explains why anthropologists are so interested in the question of whether or not gender hierarchy is universal?
a. The existence of societies with gender equality would prove that anthropologists should be working for greater gender equality in other cultures. b. If many cultures currently have or have had gender equality, this would indicate that modern societies could achieve gender equality. c. The fact that other cultures have gender equality could be used as evidence that societies with a gender hierarchy are backwards or primitive. d. This question is incoherent; anthropologists are not particularly concerned with the question of equality.
Studies of how beliefs and rituals function as part of a group's cultural adaptation to its environment are an illustration of
A. how religion can play a prominent role in cultural ecology. B. the dangers of extending the realm of religion to nature. C. how nonhuman primates also have a capacity for religion, although it is very limited. D. the fact that religion is evolutionarily adaptive. E. the dangers that religious effervescence can pose to the environment if it is not contained.
________________are the ultimate source of all genetic variation
a. Mutations b. Gene frequencies c. DNA molecules d. Alleles
Aztec girls attending the calmecac were treated more leniently than were boys, and were taught __________
a. math and science b. languages and business c. etiquette and embroidery d. skills useful in warfare