Which of the following characterizes anorexia?
a. It is a relatively new disease.
b. It has been tied to a particular gene in the human genome.
c. It is caused solely by Western cultural concerns with thinness.
d. It has been around since at least the 1800s.
Correct Answer: d
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A) they immediately became sedentary. B) they did not abandon hunting and gathering, but now combine it with cultivation and participation in the market economy. C) they no longer allowed foreign tourists to enter their territory. D) they continued hunting, but only with blowguns. E) they began to use a wider range of animal and plant resources than in the past.
Applied anthropology is found within the subfield of cultural anthropology almost exclusively
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false