Clyde Kluckhohn argued that, for the Navajo, witchcraft
a. causes innocent people to be punished for acts they could not have committed.
b. creates suspicions and conflicts among neighbors and relatives.
c. preserves solidarity between relatives by displacing hostility to outsiders.
d. is used as a political weapon.
c
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A matrilineal-matrilocal society is most likely to emerge when
A. population pressure is high. B. a shift to agriculture has recently taken place. C. men's hunting activities are more important than women's gathering. D. polygyny is common. E. warfare is infrequent.
You find yourself sitting in a quite large theatre alongside many merchants of middle means watching a visually stunning production that features a painted backdrop of a well- known local landscape, which, with the wave of one character’s wand, quickly
becomes, seemingly through magic, a different, even more spectacular setting. You are obviously attending: a. An English comedy of manners, c. 1700 b. a French Neoclassical comedy, c. 1750 c. An English heroic tragedy, c. 1670 d. A French opera, c. 1630 e. An English pantomime, c. 1740
The major item of exchange between the Lese and Efe is __________
A) children B) food C) water D) cloth
Which of the following might be interpreted as a modern example of the potlatch?
A. A local politician gives away hundreds of frozen turkeys at a campaign rally. B. A special interest group pays the salary and expenses of a lobbyist. C. A former president makes speeches in favor of his party's new candidate. D. Delegates at a national convention trade buttons and other campaign memorabilia.