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
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
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.
Emile Durkheim argued that early humans imagined souls to be the essence of life
Indicate whether the statement is true or false