What is the division of labor among hunter-gatherers?

What will be an ideal response?


Hunter-gatherers have a division of labor based on sex and age.

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One study compared the health of children born of familial incest with children of the same mother born of nonincestuous unions and found that __________

A) the incestuous group had much higher rates of genetic abnormalities than the nonincestuous group B) both groups of children had high rates of genetic abnormalities C) the nonincestuous group had much higher rates of genetic abnormalities than the incestuous group D) neither group of children had high rates of genetic abnormalities

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New international conditions have created problems and opportunities for anthropologists working in the field. One thing that fieldworkers must always keep in mind is:

A) Anthropologists are often in danger working in the field and many have been killed. B) Anthropologists must be aware that cultural representations often have great political importance. C) Native informants are increasingly reluctant to tell outsiders anything at all about their cultures. D) Since there are so few primitive cultures left, anthropologists must be extremely careful about "contaminating" those that remain. E) Native informants increasingly resent anthropologists and lie about their culture.

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The living elements that surround an organism, such as plant life, are the:

A. physical environment B. biological environment C. cultural environment D. microenvironment

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Foraging economies are usually associated with which type of sociopolitical organization?

A. band B. tribal C. state D. chiefdom E. primate

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