Which is the key assumption in Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism?
A. The human propensity to classify phenomena in certain ways is acquired through enculturation.
B. All myths can be classified as either good or evil.
C. Human minds have certain universal characteristics that originate in common features of the Homo sapiens brain and lead people everywhere to think similarly regardless of their society or cultural background.
D. There is a very specific role for human agency in culture, and the structure of cultural patterns determines that role.
E. Cultural patterns determine the human propensity to classify things in certain ways.
Answer: C
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Which of the following best describes the anthropological approach to other cultures?
A) Cultural relativism B) Ethnocentrism C) Holistic D) Biological E) Linguistic
Big men accumulate wealth because
A. they are chiefs who are trying to make their achieved status more permanent by engaging in conspicuous symbolic displays of wealth. B. the term big man refers to the liminal state that a Kapauku youth enters before marriage, during which he accumulates wealth in order to fund the wedding and pay the bride-price. C. big men do not keep the wealth they accumulate but rather redistribute it to create and maintain alliances with political supporters. D. they are typically war leaders, and as such they must maintain a supply of "grievance gifts" to compensate the families of warriors who die under their command. E. to become a big man, an individual must wear a tonowi shell necklace, which is imported from the coast and is therefore quite expensive by Kapauku standards.
Cuneiform is the name for early writing in
A. China. B. Mesoamerica. C. the Indus Valley. D. Mesopotamia. E. the Andes.
What is meant by the term "tribute"?
What will be an ideal response?