What term refers to the process by which humans innovate, creatively finding solutions to problems?
A. Enculturation
B. Acculturation
C. Independent invention
D. Globalization
E. Diffusion
C. Independent invention
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The integration of resources, labor, and capital into a complex global network is called:
A) industrialism. B) multi-nationalism. C) globalization. D) multiculturalism. E) internationalization.
________ inhabited Europe and the Middle East from about 300,000 to 30,000 years ago
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Migrant studies of Mayans indicated that Mayan stature is purely a genetic feature and is not affected by environment
a. True b. False
In an ethnographic field study of political systems in northern Mozambique, Nicholas Kottak found that avoiding shame can be an effective control against breaking social norms. This example of how shame can be a powerful social sanction
A. is unique among ethnographic cases illustrating the variety of sociopolitical systems that exist in the world today. B. is often a key component of the formal processes of social control. C. is evidence that shame is a cultural universal. D. is an indication that women tend to suffer from the consequences of shame more than men do. E. joins the work of many other anthropologists that cite the importance of informal processes of social control, including gossip and stigma.