Like ethnicity and language, religion also is
A. a social fiction.
B. a topic of research that distinguishes anthropology from other disciplines.
C. a phenomenon that illustrates the power of biology over culture.
D. a cultural generality.
E. associated with social divisions within and between societies and nations.
Answer: E
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The central concept in anthropology is the concept of
a. distribution. b. power. c. culture. d. artifacts.
The view that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, has its own distinctive history, and that social forms (such as totemism in different societies) that might look similar are not comparable because of their different histories, is known as
A. structural functionalism. B. the Boasian approach. C. comparative functionalism. D. cultural generalism. E. historical particularism.
Which of the following regions is NOT an area where agriculture was invented?
a. the Middle East b. China c. Europe d. Central and South America
Compared to other primates, the human brain has
A) smaller, but larger numbers of, individual brain cells B) more complex individual brain cells C) less complex individual brain cells D) larger individual brain cells E) more interconnections among the individual brain cells