According to the lecture on Race and Ethnicity, whether ethnicity is situational or primordial depends on whether the cultural or racial aspect of ethnicity is being emphasized

a. true
b. false


a. true

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Once two Inuit individuals are involved in a dispute and become peaceful by engaging in a singing contest, the affair is considered:

a. open to negotiation by both individual’s families. b. open to negotiation by the individuals involved. c. closed and resolved. d. closed to legal repercussions. e. delayed until further notice.

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Postmortem events are often of greater interest to forensic anthropologists than they are to bioarchaeologists

a. True b. False

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Marvin Harris argues that pork was not generally raised in the Middle East historically because:

a. it was considered sinful in all Middle Eastern religions. b. some Middle Eastern societies owned all of the land and prevented pig-raising. c. no ethnic group in the Middle East would eat pork. d. pig-raising threatened the natural ecosystem. e. pig-raising was economically inefficient in such a humid environment.

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The settling of legal disputes by a centralized authority is known as __________

A. big-man leadership B. litigation C. totalitarianism D. adjudication

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