With unilineal descent, one's lineage affiliation is ascribed at birth, but with ambilineal descent, lineage affiliation is more fluid, because each member chooses his or her own descent group
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: True
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What term refers to wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of producing a profit?
A. the modern world system B. capital C. socioeconomic stratification D. an open class system E. industrialization
The more that physical anthropologists discover, the more complicated the evolutionary history of humanity becomes
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Define rite of passage. Identify three phases that ordinarily constitute a rite of passage. Provide at least two different examples to illustrate your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
More recent approaches in historical anthropology, while sharing an interest in power with world-system theorists, have focused more on
A. the structural causes of colonialism. B. how anthropological theory can aid NGOs in writing an alternate history of oppressed peoples. C. the role of colonial bureaucracies in shaping international culture. D. local agency, the transformative actions of individuals and groups within colonized societies. E. the state's role in denying some of its citizens a place in history.