Which of the following is a true statement?
a. The Iroquois kinship system lumps mother and mother's brother into the same category.
b. The Eskimo kinship system is the one that is most commonly used in the U.S.
c. The Eskimo kinship system calls mother and mother's sister by the same term.
d. The Iroquois kinship system is associated with bilateral descent.
e. The Iroquois kinship system is most commonly found in food collecting societies.
b
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a. Political anthropology b. Medical anthropology c. Urban anthropology d. Environmental anthropology e. Educational anthropology
In his study of New York department store employees, Labov found that
A. workers in all three stores pronounced /r/ with the same frequency. B. /r/ was pronounced most frequently by workers in the lower-middle-class store (S. Klein's). C. /r/ was pronounced most frequently by workers in the middle-class store (Macy's). D. /r/ was pronounced most frequently by workers in the upper-middle-class store (Saks). E. none of the workers pronounced /r/.
Corporate lineages function effectively to maintain social control because of all of the following EXCEPT:
a. they have power to control the economic well-being of their members. b. they allow individuals to make their own marriage decisions. c. they are socially intimate. d. they have diffuse roles. e. members derive their primary identity from them.
Humans have 46 pairs of chromosomes
Indicate whether the statement is true or false