Claude Levi-Strauss developed structuralism to try to answer the question of why __________ around the world seem so similar
a. myths
b. marriages
c. ethical systems
d. religions
Answer: a
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A. the fact that anthropologists are, after all, colonial agents of the industrialized West. B. the problem inherent in anthropology's overspecialization. C. anthropology's crisis in representation-questions about the role of the ethnographer and the nature of ethnographic authority. D. the threat that the World Wide Web poses to anthropologists who are less and less needed to write about and publish accounts of cultural diversity. E. a lack of leadership in the American Anthropological Association.
British policies such as __________ were designed to force African populations in their colonies to participate in plantation labor and building projects
a. land confiscation b. taxes payable only in cash c. keeping the families of tribal leaders as hostages d. the introduction of factories
Slave archaeology at Jefferson's Monticello plantation in Virginia has helped interpret historical records from the time. For instance, written records document that Jefferson moved Critta Hemings (part of his house staff) from a large house with a brick floor, a stone fireplace, and architectural embellishments, to a small simple house with dirt floors. Yet she remained a part of his house
staff, a normally favored status. Slave quarter excavations showed a. that Hemings was demoted; she and her family were forced to move from the large house where only they lived to much smaller quarters which they had to share with several other families. b. that the move actually provided Hemings and her family with access to subfloor pits in which they could store their possessions, helping them maintain some privacy and security. c. that the move actually allowed Hemings and her family to have a house of their own, rather than sharing a household with other families. d. Hemings never actually moved; she and her family remained in her large house in spite of Jefferson's demands. e. Hemings never lived at Monticello.
Which of the following about the peopling of the Americas is FALSE?
A. Analysis of DNA suggests the Americas were settled by more than one haplogroup-a lineage marked by one or more specific genetic mutations. B. The first migration(s) of people into the Americas may date back 18,000 years. C. Researchers calculate that it would have taken from 600 to 1,000 years for the first Americans and their descendants to travel by land from the southern part of the Canadian ice-free corridor to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America-a distance of more than 8,680 miles. D. The first migration of people into the Americas reached the continent's southwestern coasts from the Pacific islands. E. The Clovis people were not the first settlers of the Americas.