In which of the following would you expect to find a more strict sexual (gender) division of labor?
a. Pastoral societies
b. ?Horticultural societies
c. Swidden agricultural societies
d. Foraging societies
ANSWER:
a
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In South Sudan, a Nuer woman can marry a woman if her father has only daughters but no male heirs. This is done to maintain the patrilineage. The "wife" has sex with one or more men until she gets pregnant. The children born are then accepted as the offspring of both the female husband and the wife. What is important in this example is
A. social rather than biological paternity, again illustrating how kinship is socially constructed. B. the fact that only same-sex marriages are recognized in patrilineal societies. C. that it illustrates how romantic love is both universal and complicated. D. how biology overrides culture regardless of human intentions. E. how often marriage is simply about property.
The oldest form of human subsistence is foraging
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The first mammals evolved during the:
A. Paleozoic B. Neozoic C. Mesozoic D. Cenozoic
Which anthropologist suggested the core-fringe-legume pattern?
a. Sidney Mintz b. V. Gordon Childe c. Carl Sauer d. Robert Carneiro