Approximately how many languages exist today?
a. about 600
b. about 60,000
c. about 1,600
d. about 6,000
d
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Which of the following is a task usually performed by women cross-culturally?
a. Clearing fields for planting b. Keeping up dwellings c. Herding small animals d. Fishing as a secondary resource
A society's cultural features fall within all of the following categories except:
a. infrastructure b. interstructure c. social structure d. superstructure
All of the following forces cause linguistic diversity to diminish over time EXCEPT:
A) nation-states insisting that all official business be conducted in an official language. B) media exposure becoming global. C) languages and language communities tending to change constantly. D) global trade favoring very specific languages. E) immigrants abandoning their languages in order to adapt socially.
Anthropological theories in the 21st century are
a. developed independently of the theories of the earliest anthropologists. b. merely hypotheses that anthropologists use in the field to help guide them. c. often built upon what was learned from earlier theories. d. entirely new concepts due to rapid modernization of the United States. e. no longer based on the simple ideas of the 18th century theories.