Trobriand women's most prized material items are __________

A) skirts
B) pigs
C) shell necklaces
D) grass mats


Answer: A

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Which of the following statements about Karl Marx is FALSE?

A. He emphasized class consciousness. B. He called the people who sold their own labor the proletariat. C. He viewed socioeconomic stratification in terms of several classes with different but complementary interests. D. He called the owners of the means of production the bourgeoisie. E. He analyzed nineteenth century industrial production capitalism.

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Generalized male dominance is buttressed by gender ideology

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following are cultural particularities?

A. features of a culture that are isolated from other features in the same culture B. features unique to a given culture, not shared with any others C. different levels of culture D. the most general aspects of culture patterns E. cultural features exhibited by individuals rather than groups

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From his observations in England and his analysis of 19th-century industrial capitalism, Karl Marx saw socioeconomic stratification as a sharp division between two classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. He also argued that class consciousness comes about as a result of

a: the continuation of ethnic identities even though ethnic "markers" (distinct clothing styles, etc) have more or less disappeared b: people recognizing they have a common economic interest and identifying themselves as part of the group that shares that interest c: a growing distinction among religious beliefs in complex industrialized societies d: people extending notions of kinship beyond the boundaries of actual biological relations e: the gradual elaboration of gendered differences first established during the period of peasant substance farming

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