Mana is
A. absent in societies with differential access to strategic resources.
B. acquired in Melanesia, but in Polynesia it is attached to political offices.
C. the most archaic religious doctrine.
D. a kind of bread prepared during communal rituals in Melanesia and Polynesia.
E. concerned with supernatural beings rather than with powers or forces.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
Ethnographers are focusing more explicitly now on the importance of the individual in bringing about change. This is called individual __________.
A) variation B) socialization C) agency D) independence
A statistically well-supported phylogenic tree __________
a. is a precise reconstruction of evolutionary events b. is never subject to different interpretations c. should incorporate the fewest number of evolutionary steps or events d. does not require nodes to have a high degree of statistical certainty
The study of nonhuman primates to learn information about human evolution is limited by __________
a. the fact that we are not really primates ourselves b. the small number of living nonhuman primate species c. the wide range of behaviors documented in the Primate order d. the relative lack of similarity between primates and ourselves
A key marker of gender coding in spoken English in the United States is __________
A) women's tendency to lower their intonation at the end of a sentence B) men's tendency to speak more formally and politely C) women's greater use of tag questions D) women's more frequent use of eye contact