In parts of Melanesia, pigs can be purchased using strings of shells, which cannot be used to buy any other goods or services. This is an example of __________.

A) special-purpose money
B) general-purpose money
C) bartered commodities
D) peasant money


A) special-purpose money

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Anthropologists have concluded that the physical environment by itself has a __________, rather than a __________, effect on the major types of subsistence

A) restraining; determining B) definitive; determining C) definitive; restraining D) positive; negative

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According to research by De Vos and Wagatsuma, __________ is/are the most maliciously stereotyped minority group in Japan

a. the Ainu b. Burakumin c. children of Japanese and non-Asian foreigners d. Koreans

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Which of the following could be considered the best evidence to support Robert Camiro's theory of environmental circumscription?

a. Many early state-level societies are found near lakes, rivers, and oceans. b. Violence and warfare accelerated prior to early state formation. c. Early states relied almost exclusively on agriculture. d. Some state-level societies formed in river valleys.

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Emile Durkheim argued that early humans imagined souls to be the essence of life

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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