Which of the following best describes the hypodescent rule?
a. A law that allows minority racial groups special access to government services
b. A law that gives racial superiority to one group over another
c. Assigning an individual with mixed ethnicity to the minority group
d. Configuring an individual's ancestry to omit any minority groups from being known
e. Changing an individual's birth data, such as their age, so that they can be placed in a different social category
c
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Europeans saw the Melanesian cargo cults as irrational. But anthropologists studying them in the 1950s argued that they were rational responses. What evidence did they cite for this?
What will be an ideal response?
What became the central economic activity for the Lakota nations by as early as the seventeenth century?
a. Farming and selling crops b. Selling and trading firearms c. Trapping and trading d. Organizing warfare
In areas where malaria is prevalent, it is best to be heterozygous for the sickle-cell allele. This results in a situation referred to as:
A. heterozygous polymorphism B. balanced phenotypism C. balanced polymorphism D. a multiple allele series
Which of the following was NOT originally domesticated in the Old World?
A. barley B. millet C. turkey D. rice E. goat