One explanation of the witchcraft phenomenon in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 was that __________
A) political and economic turmoil led to fear and a search for scapegoats
B) the men wanted the loose women of the community removed
C) many women were involved in a coven
D) the women who were accused were unfit mothers
Answer: A
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The shared, learned behavior of non-human apes should not be considered culture
a. True b. False
Traditional ethnographic research focused on the single community or culture, which was treated as more or less isolated and unique in time and space; however,
A. all such single communities have already been studied, so anthropologists have very limited project choices. B. there has been a shift within the discipline toward recognition of ongoing and inescapable flows of people, technology, images, and information. C. the American Anthropological Association still requires its members to strive toward research focused on one single community. D. this is no longer true, nor has it ever really been true, a fact that renders classic ethnographies historical curiosities and not serious academic works. E. there has been a shift within the discipline against the concept of culture and toward the individual as the only true, reliable unit of analysis.
Describe one way cultural anthropology has changed since the late nineteenth century
What will be an ideal response?
Most broadly, by studying other people who live in different circumstances, anthropologists attempt to gain new insights on:
a. the future. b. the past. c. primates. d. ourselves.