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. human rights are limited.
C. foraging communities' identities are being reshaped by their relationships with NGOs.
D. more and more foragers have come under the control of nation-states and are now influenced by the forces of globalization.
E. the foraging lifestyle has finally become a thing of the past.
Answer: D
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d. primitive people live in harmony and do not require contact with other cultures, nor do they undergo internalchange. e. society maintains a fragile balance that can be destroyed by any contact with an outside influence.
Members of the genus Homo were almost exclusively creatures of the tropics until about:
a. 200,000 years ago b. 1 million years ago c. 800,000 years ago d. 400,000 years ago
Unlike Trobriand women, which of these must a Chinese rural women possess in order to be a marriageable bride?
A) ?Her virginity. B) ?Evidence of sexual experience. C) ?A dowry. D) ?A wedding gown.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The fact that the brain of a human infant is less than 30 percent of its adult size is a consequence of the development of language. 2. Olduvai Gorge is in Southern Africa. 3. One of the oldest australopithecine sites, Laetoli, has yielded many hominin fossils as well as tracks of hominin footprints. 4. The first concrete evidence of the manufacture of stone tools dates to about 3.8 million B.P. 5. The dentition of Australopithecus afarensis is like modern chimpanzee dentition.