Anthropologists focus on culture as a way of explaining economic behavior
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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If you live in a society that practices exogamy, you must:
a. Have more than one husband or wife. b. Get married (no one is allowed to be a single adult). c. Marry someone of your own social group. d. Marry someone of a different social group. e. Marry someone chosen by your mother's parents.
The word civilization derives from the Latin word, civis, referring to one who is an inhabitant of a city, and civitas, which refers to the urban community in which one lives. The word civilization connotes refinement and progress, but in anthropology, the term refers to:
a. the independence of people to do what they desire. b. societies in which small numbers of people live in socially stratified political systems. c. societies in which large numbers of people live in political systems that lack stratification. d. societies in which large numbers of people live in socially stratified political systems. e. central inhabited cities where transportation and communication hubs exist.
Are certain sexual preferences more natural than others? What factors compel some societies to deviate from the heterosexual norm found in most human societies?
What will be an ideal response?
Virtually all nomadic pastoralists are organized in kin-based sociopolitical communities called
A) tribes. B) bands. C) legions. D) nations. E) states.