Neolocal residence is associated exclusively with food-collecting societies
a. True
b. False
ANSWER:
False
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A. cultural universals, like the human ability to make fire, always have a genetic basis. B. Freud was right: Children everywhere have sexual feelings toward their parents. C. although tabooed, incest does happen. D. many societies need better educational systems. E. many societies need better techniques of social control.
Which of the following correctly characterizes Dalva, one of the informants in Mary Kenny's study of the favela of Olinda?
a. Like many other children, she will use her formal schooling to escape conditions of poverty. b. A victim of child abuse, she will most likely have to spend the rest of her life in an institution. c. Although her family is poor, she receives strong support from her parents, particularly her mother. d. She works 12 hours a day sewing shirts for American corporations but barely makes enough money to feed herself, let alone her brothers and sisters. e. Although only 12, by organizing younger children and generating income, she has become the head of her household.
Which of the following is classified as an unethical practice?
a. Testifying in court proceedings regarding native territories and indigenous land claims b. Sharing ethnographic data with another anthropologist c. Staging ethnographic film footage d. Providing compensation for interviews
The annual costs associated with automobile fatalities in the U.S. are an example of:
a) market externalities. b) consumer choice. c) pure free markets. d) All of these choices