Analyze the different explanations put forth to explain the universality of religion

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1, Tylor—the need to understand
2, Freud—reversion to childhood feelings
3, Malinowski—anxiety and uncertainty
4, Durkheim—need for community
5, Need for cooperation

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Whether we will become a different species in the future

a. is not a question we can easily answer. b. is a question that anthropologists have considered. c. is certain; we will all have big heads, big eyes, and four fingers on each hand. d. does not depend on the future course of evolution. e. is almost certain to occur in 100 years.

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According to the Economics of Immigration lecture, undocumented immigrants pay taxes and contribute a lot to social security and medicare programs through payroll taxes

a. true b. false

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An ethnic psychosis refers to a:

a. psychotic episode experienced by a person from an exotic culture. b. progressive disease that strikes anthropologists when they spend more than 12 months in the field. c. psychosis characterized by symptoms peculiar to a particular group. d. universal form of mental illness. e. biologically-based disease that resembles schizophrenia.

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Some of the oldest preserved cell anatomy can be found in ____________

a. dinosaur eggs b. tree rings c. insects in amber d. stromatolite fossils

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