What is the great "myth" that is commonly held in North America regarding the reason for the establishment of a taboo against first-cousin marriage in the United States?
a. It is a religious prohibition and against biblical law
b. It decreased the chances for the family to extend social alliances.
c. It would incite feuding within the nuclear family.
d. It would cause significantly increased numbers of birth defects.
d
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a. in that females are professional artists while men are not b. in the kinds of tools each uses as well as the kinds of designs each carves c. because males travel widely and adopt new styles from neighboring societies d. because men are professional artists while women are not
Early Homo (in one form or another) overlapped in time with the australopithecines
A) 0.8 million years B) 0.5 million years C) 1.6 million years D) 2.0 million years E) they did not overlap at all
__________ are methods of obtaining food
a. Economies b. Subsistence patterns c. Carrying capacities d. Agriculture
Anthropologists, as compared to other social scientists, have spent a great deal of time studying kinship because they have ____
a. always focused largely on biological relationships b. concentrated mainly on small-scale societies where kinship relations tend to be important c. always studied fictional relationships and how societies are organized socially and politically d. concentrated on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important and affect the individual’s ability to survive e. have found that kinship is the single most significant factor in social organization in every human society