What is the difference between kin terms and genealogical kin types? Why would an anthropologist want to make such a distinction? Can you see any problems with this distinction? In your everyday experience, do you distinguish between kin terms and genealogical kin types?
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a. The age of the last outermost ring.. b. The year that the tree was the healthiest, thus providing a signal of climatic amicability. c. The year a tree was used in to build a structure. d. The year a tree was burned. e. The length of the sunspots effecting the earth's climate
Neandertal crania are
a. large, long, low, and bulging at the sides. b. absent of browridges. c. a rounded, smooth occipital area like that seen in modern humans. d. a vertical forehead like that seen in modern humans. e. small and flat.
Describe the relationship between a son and his father in a matrilineal society
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The Ghost Dance movement of the North American Plains Indians is an example of both __________
a. a revitalization movement and diffusion b. a revolution and diffusion c. a revitalization movement and revolution d. external culture change and forced assimilation