What development was necessary before foragers could live in tropical forest environments?
A) animal husbandry of small animals for protein
B) market economy to trade with neighbors for metal tools
C) an irrigation system to deal with heavy tropical rains
D) trade with agriculturalists to obtain carbohydrates
D) trade with agriculturalists to obtain carbohydrates
You might also like to view...
The British introduced cricket to “civilize” the Trobriand Islanders. What happened?
a. The Trobrianders were so upset at losing their traditional customs that they rebelled against the British rulers. b. The Trobrianders gave up competitive sport altogether. c. The Trobrianders accepted the game and played it the way the British played it. d. The Trobrianders changed the game so that it became more like the traditional Trobriand contest involving display of prestige. e. The Trobrianders preferred baseball to cricket.
In the horticultural society of the Jivaro in Peru, women performed most agricultural labor and as a result __________
a. they were treated as mere laborers by men b. have higher status than Yanomamo women c. control the distribution of food resources d. suffer from low status because labor is denigrated in Jivaro society
Margaret Mead, in her research in Samoa, _______
a. concluded that the emotional turbulence of adolescents in the United States is culturally rather than biologically based b. concluded that there are fixed gender roles regardless of the culture of origin c. discovered that adolescence was universally difficult for both children and parents and required intervention from other members of society d. demonstrated the importance of genes rather than cultural conditioning e. discovered the participant observation fieldwork method that would be used by all anthropologists afterwards
The Native American language with the largest number of home speakers is __________
a. Apache b. Navajo c. Cherokee d. Yupik