An important effect of European contact on the Yanamamo was:
a. An increased ability to learn English.
b. A decrease in the amount of violence.
c. Better health and education.
d. Acquisition of firearms and increased fatalities in war.
e. A more technologically effective exploitation of their forest environment.
D
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What term does anthropologist Fredrik Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependence of those groups?
A. assimilation B. multicultural C. broad-spectrum subsistence D. plural society E. pluralism
The Toumai fossil is estimated to be __________
a. between 3.5 million and 4 million years old b. approximately 9 million years old c. between 5.2 million and 7 million years old d. approximately 8 million years old
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis argues that
A. the degree of cultural complexity is related to the effectiveness of languages as systems of communication. B. the languages people speak influence the way they think. C. because the Hopi do not use three verb tenses, they have no concept of time. D. culture determines what language is able to describe. E. all humans are endowed with the ability to use language.
The process of economic change, whereby developing societies acquire some of the social and political characteristics of Western industrial societies, is called ____________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word