According to the text, what is a major challenge in assessing the impact of new cultural practices?
a. Consequences don't appear for years
b. The root cause is unknowable
c. Few people care to investigate
d. Anthropologists look in the wrong places
e. Cultural systems will discard them before they are researched
a
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Which of the following is not associated with Franz Boas?
a. ?The study of cultural histories b. ?Training in the physical and geographic sciences c. ?Research among the Arctic peoples d. ?Use of a social evolutionary approach
Mammalian traits include:
A. heterodontism, a set of specific reproductive patterns, and a set of unique brain structures. B. homiothermy, a set of specific reproductive patterns, and a set of unique brain structures. C. a set of specific reproductive patterns and a set of unique brain structures. D. homiothermy, heterodontism, a set of specific reproductive patterns, and a set of unique brain structures.
Discuss the general patterns found in the family organization of foragers.
What will be an ideal response?
According to anthropologist Ann Stoler, the economic determinants of gender status include
A. controlling one's own and others' tendency toward overconsumption. B. free will and overcoming ideas that split the mind and body. C. the level of interest rates and the price of oil. D. free will and overcoming ideas that associate sin with the desires of the flesh. E. freedom or autonomy and social power.