In what kind of kinship calculation are kin ties traced equally through males and females?
A. bilineal
B. bifurcate merging
C. bifurcate collateral
D. bilateral
E. biluminous
Answer: D
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Which of these fields focuses on the relationship between a culture and its environment?
A) cultural ecology B) cultural biology C) social ecology D) social biology
Reflecting today's world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that
A. challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world. B. becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture. C. is increasingly multisited and multitimed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena. D. is more traditional, negating anthropologists' concerns about defending their field's roots. E. requires researchers to stay at the same site for more than three years.
Cultural emphasis refers to
a. the major nonverbal forms of communication in a society. b. the favorite forms of argument in a society. c. the one language most members of society learn better than any other. d. the group of words in a language that are considered more adaptively important in that culture. e. certain types of words that are found repeatedly in different languages, such as “mama.”
Donald lives in Canada and is proficient in English and Canadian French. His French is good enough, in fact, that he applies and gets excepted to law school in Paris, France. Once there, however, his classmates and professors respond negatively to his Canadian French. Donald find that this becomes a barrier to making friends and progressing his studies. Which of the following best explains Donald's experience?
Parisians French is most refined, beautiful, different type of French to learn Donald requires help translating legal terms to Canadian French Donald needs to shift his worldview to match that of Parisians Paris French is a kind of cultural capital that helps open doors to opportunity