The terms female genital mutilation and female circumcision reflect __________
a. different procedures that are conducted on women in some cultures
b. different attitudes toward the same procedure
c. a medical versus nonmedical understanding of a cultural practice
d. the need for more precise terms in anthropological research
Answer: b
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Susan Montague and Robert Morais (1981) argue that Americans appreciate football because it presents a miniaturized and simplified version of modern organizations. These researchers
A. suggest that football is a peculiarly American pastime because of our wartime history. B. link football's values, particularly teamwork, to those associated with business. C. argue that football allows spectators to vicariously realize their own hostile and aggressive tendencies. D. argue that football should be regulated the same way we regulate corporations. E. suggest that football, with its territorial incursion and violence, is popular because Americans are violent people.
Ethnomedicine refers to __________
A) the study of cross-cultural health systems B) the globalization of Western biomedicine C) the universal use of medicines to treat illness D) ways of curing disease rather than preventing it
What does the degree of variation in modern human mtDNA suggest?
A) Humans can be divided into at least three distinct species. B) We all share relatively recent common ancestry. C) Humans and chimpanzees diverged much more recently than expected. D) We are all descendants of Ice Age European populations.