All of the following statements about the naming ceremony are true except:
a. personal names create a sense of individual identity.
b. through naming, the social group acknowledges the child's birthright.
c. names express multiple aspects of the group identity as well.
d. naming creates social identity.
e. all cultures have some ceremony to mark the naming of a child.
e
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Lovejoy's male provisioning scenario
a. is now the best supported explanation for the evolution of bipedalism. b. has not been significantly critiqued by paleoanthropologists. c. is entirely consistent with the hominid fossil record. d. is entirely consistent with the archaeological record. e. assumes that males were paired monogamously with females.
This chapter's description of the San Bushmen's relation to the government of Botswana provides a telling example of how
A. foragers are willingly choosing to change their lifestyles and become a part of the global village. B. foraging communities' identities are being reshaped by their relationships with NGOs. C. the foraging lifestyle has finally become a thing of the past. D. more and more foragers have come under the control of nation-states and are now influenced by the forces of globalization. E. human rights are limited.
As a part of cargo cults, supernatural beings were invoked by ________ to intercede-to kill or otherwise deflate the European big men and redistribute their wealth.
A. revitalization movements B. taboos C. syncretism D. magical leveling E. rites of passage
The San people have been studied by anthropologists since the beginning of the discipline in the U.S. Southwest.?
a. True b. False