Distinguish between bride-price and bride service
What will be an ideal response?
Bride-price is money transferred to the bride's family upon marriage, whereas bride service involves a designated period of work that the groom does for the bride's family.
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Why do anthropologists question the idea that present-day foragers can be compared to Paleolithic foragers?
A. Paleolithic foragers were prelinguistic. B. Paleolithic foragers were not Homo sapiens. C. The types of foraging vary so widely that few generalizations can be drawn. D. There are no present-day foragers. E. Present-day foragers have been in contact with food-producing and industrialized societies for long periods of time and all live within nation-states that inevitably affect their livelihood.
Recent fossil finds from Ethiopia such as the Herto skulls (154,000-160,000 B.P.) and the Omo remains (estimated date 195,000 B.P.) provide accumulated evidence to support the
A. European origin of anatomically modern humans. B. idea that Neandertals originated in Africa and never left the continent. C. African origin of anatomically modern humans. D. Asian origin of broad-spectrum revolution. E. crucial role the manipulation of fire played in the advent of behavioral modernity.
One of the stated goals of public anthropology is to
A. promote anthropology as a career, especially to minorities. B. oppose policies that promote injustice. C. encourage academic anthropologists to become applied anthropologists. D. restrict the publication of research papers to professional journals. E. refrain from discussion of social issues in the media.
In a study of farming tribes in the eastern U.S., researchers found that ____ societies were the most successful in terms of maintaining their populations under changing social and environmental conditions
a. agricultural b. horticultural c. patrilineal d. matrilineal