Kin groups are:
a. groups of people who culturally consider themselves to be relatives.
b. groups of people who share the same last name.
c. groups of people who were once related but now are not.
d. groups of people who don't realize they are related.
A
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As an example of how virtually no one is immune from larger political and economic forces, the Yanomami tribal society of Brazil has suffered recent changes as a result of
A. being overrun by the more expansion-minded Nilotic peoples. B. modern-minded big men amassing so much wealth that people have begun to regard them as chiefs. C. village raiding among tribal groups. D. the involvement of NGOs in their internal political affairs. E. encroachment by gold miners and ranchers.
The world's rain forests contain about ____ percent of the world's species.
A. 12 B. 27 C. 46 D. 62
In an ethnographic field study of political systems in northern Mozambique, Nicholas Kottak found that avoiding shame can be an effective control against breaking social norms. This example of how shame can be a powerful social sanction
A. is unique among ethnographic cases illustrating the variety of sociopolitical systems that exist in the world today. B. is often a key component of the formal processes of social control. C. is evidence that shame is a cultural universal. D. is an indication that women tend to suffer from the consequences of shame more than men do. E. joins the work of many other anthropologists that cite the importance of informal processes of social control, including gossip and stigma.
A policy of ethnic expulsion or ethnic persecution may create
A. social races. B. ethnic harmony. C. refugee populations. D. a plural society. E. multiculturalism.