What does Clifford Geertz mean by saying that "culture is like a novel"?
What will be an ideal response?
He is an interpretive anthropologist and believes that culture is a system of meaning and that cultural anthropology should be the process of interpreting the meanings of cultural acts. For Geertz, culture is a series of events or "chapters" that together to form an understanding of who we are.
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. If pageant wagons were used to stage cycles in a city, they faced problems of timing and ease of movement. 2. Cycles or “cosmic dramas” were based mostly on the Bible. 3. Morality plays could be secular as well as religious.
Iranian women’s abandonment and subsequent return to the veil and more traditional female roles illustrates that
a. the status of women in societies is not static. b. political change seldom changes women’s roles. c. men are universally dominant. d. purdah has no place in the modern world. e. world politics has enormous effect on what women choose to do.
Societies where females contribute a high degree to primary subsistence, infants are fed solid foods __________, and baby girls are __________ valued
A) earlier; more B) earlier; less C) later; more D) later; less
The evolution of anthropoids is best developed through fossil evidence from __________
A. North America B. Europe, Asia, and Africa C. newly discovered finds in Antarctica D. India