Anthropology's comparative, biocultural perspective
A. is a product of the participant observation approach.
B. is the reason it has traditionally studied nonindustrialized societies.
C. allows the inclusion of both biological and cultural approaches to comment on or solve a particular issue or problem.
D. places it in the humanities.
E. is insignificant, since evolution is studied by biological anthropologists, while culture is studied by cultural anthropologists.
Answer: C
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a. reveals the emotions of the communicator, cross-culturally. b. is useless as a form of communication. c. is unavoidable, thus, most conversations are nonverbal cross-culturally. d. varies culture to culture. e. differs widely across the United States.
Which of the following statements concerning missionism is NOT accurate?
a. Missionaries of multiple religious affiliations worked with one another for equal influence. b. Religious missionaries have aided processes of state consolidation and cultural transformation. c. European missionism was often accompanied by education and social, economic, and political control. d. European missionaries believed it was the duty of indigenous peoples to work for the White Man.
Which of these describes the first stage of globalization?
a. The world industrialized and European countries established empires. b. An integrated global economy developed. c. The global marketing of products began. d. Europeans conquered the Americas and established a world trade network.
The Miocene Hominid Radiation refers to the rapid evolution in the Miocene of:
A. the early prosimians B. the early Old World monkeys C. the early New World monkeys D. the early apes