Dr. Ann Soetoro, the mother of President Barack Obama, was a cultural anthropologist who worked in Indonesia studying ______
a. ritual practices and religious change
b. agricultural improvement and multinational corporations
c. economic development and entrepreneurism among rural craftspeople
d. gender roles in society
e. educational policy and improvements
ANSWER:
c
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A. their long and broad midfaces. B. their tall and narrow sagittal crests. C. their high cranial vaults, falling within modern dimensions. D. their tall and narrow nasal bones. E. evidence of the skulls' cutting and handling, suggesting they had been detached from their bodies and used—perhaps ritually—after death.
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