Compare and contrast synchronic and diachronic analyses
What will be an ideal response?
Both are ways of understanding language; synchronic is the analysis of cultural data at
a single point in time (looking at how things differ), while diachronic is an analysis
through time, or over time (looking at how things change)
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A) palm oil B) aluminum C) silver D) phosphates
Given the mobility of people today, anthropologists increasingly are shifting their attention from local communities to
A. texts. B. hegemonies. C. post-socialist societies. D. public transcripts. E. diasporas.
Genetic drift
A) involves change over long periods of time in large populations B) works best in large populations with lots of genetic variation C) acts much like stabilizing selection on a species population D) involves chance fluctuations in a population's gene frequencies E) involves the action of strong natural selection
Sexual dimorphism refers to
A. gendered handedness. B. tool use by males. C. difference in body size between the sexes. D. difference in typical social roles.