Archaeologists offer all of the following as explanations for cave art except:
a. They were drawn to magically increase the chance of a successful hunt.
b. They contain coded information about the hunt.
c. They were made for ritual use.
d. They depict things seen by shamans during trance.
e. They are for decorating the cave.
E
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Based on scientific theories of evolution, humans are not descended from gorillas or chimps. Rather,
A. they are descended from gorillas. B. humans are descended from Adam and Eve. C. they are descended from chimps. D. humans and African apes share a common ancestor. E. it is the other way around: gorillas and chimps are descended from humans.
Treating the effects of poverty on health with pills is referred to as __________
A) cultural constructionism B) medicalization C) biological determinism D) medical pluralism
Gender stratification
A. is less pronounced among agriculturalists. B. is includes societies where women control all the strategic resources. C. is generally reduced when the domestic and public spheres are not sharply separated. D. allows women to become more powerful as they contribute more to the domestic sphere. E. allows women to become more powerful as they contribute less to the domestic sphere.
Sapir and Whorf argued that the grammatical categories of different languages lead their speakers to think about things in particular ways. However, studies on the differences between female and male Americans with regard to the color terms they use suggest that
A. contrary to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it might be more reasonable to say that changes in culture produce changes in language and thought, rather than the reverse. B. changes in the U.S. economy, society, and culture had no impact on the use of color terms, or on any other terms for that matter. C. in support of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, different languages produce different ways of thinking. D. women spend more money on status goods than do men. E. women and men are equally sensitive to the marketing tactics of the cosmetic industry.