You spend most weekends engaged in participant observation of ritual feasting and dancing in your study community. What is the BEST way to record your observations so you can analyze the cultural significance of these gatherings?
What will be an ideal response?
Keep detailed field notes after each celebration and compare your observations.
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In this chapter's "Focus on Globalization" section, scientists trace the global spread of anatomically modern humans by constructing a global phylogenetic tree based on mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). What have we learned from this tree?
A. Modern humans spread out of Africa over a million years ago. B. There was only one wave of migration into North and South America. C. The Ice Age temporarily halted early human migrations. D. The Americas were settled by multiple haplogroups rather than by a single ancestral population. E. Human migrations were not influenced by global climate change.
Big City Java is a local coffee bar. Using Excel, the manager of Big City Java estimates the weekly demand function for their grand mocha coffees to be Qd = 650 - (15.25 × P). The estimated regression equation suggests that if Big City Java decreased its price of grana mocha coffees from $7.50 to $5.50, the predicted quantity demanded of coffees would ________.
A) decrease by 30.5 B) exactly double C) not change D) increase by 30.5
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Neoclassical comedy and tragedy were defined partly in terms of the social status of the characters. 2. Tragicomedy was a neoclassical genre. 3. Shakespeare was a typical Neoclassical playwright.
In most people's brains, the language centers appear __________
a. in the right hemisphere b. in the occipital lobe c. in the motor cortex d. in the left hemisphere