In the 1930s and '40s, Edward Sapir and _____investigated the idea that language, by providing habitual grooves of expression, predisposes people to see the world in a certain way
a. Leslie White
b. Franz Boas
c. Benjamin Lee Whorf
d. Peter Woolfson
e. Bill Haviland
c
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Which of the following statements about leaders in foraging bands is true?
A. They retain their power by maintaining strong ties with the commoner class. B. They inherited privileged access to strategic resources. C. They maintain control by conquering foreign territories. D. They have no means of forcing people to follow their decisions. E. They are the dominant males in the largest, most powerful descent groups.
Tribes of the U.S. Northwest Coast and Tahiti represent a social system in which positions of status are limited, and thus where not everyone of talent may achieve high status or prestige, called a(n)
a. ranked society. b. egalitarian society. c. nonresidential group. d. residential group. e. patrilocal society
Objects or materials made or modified by hominins are called:
a. artifacts b. ecofacts c. context d. knappers e. scrappers
A major difference between Paranthropus boisei and Paranthropus aethiopicus is in their degree of facial prognathism. This was because, unlike Paranthropus aethiopicus, Paranthropus boisei:
A. had a prominently protruding jaw. B. had large canines that were slightly incisiform. C. had a flat face. D. had large incisors.