Anthropologist Susan Kent notes a tendency to stereotype foragers, to treat them as all alike. They used to be stereotyped as isolated, primitive survivors of the Stone Age. Another common, more recent, stereotype of foragers sees them as
A. ideal humans with the perfect diet and rhythm of life.
B. primitive survivors not of the Stone Age but of the Bronze Age.
C. peaceful individuals in touch with their inner selves.
D. culturally deprived people forced by states, colonialism, or world events into marginalized environments.
E. not isolated at all but living in nation-states and in an interlinked world.
Answer: D
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a. discrimination.
b. holism.
c. ethnology.
d. ethnography.
e. ethnocentrism.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following statements is generally TRUE?
a. Adult primate males tend to be dominant to females. b. Dominant individuals appear to be the only ones who have reproductive success. c. Dominant animals are always males. d. Dominance hierarchies usually reduce the amount of actual physical violence. e. Dominance hierarchies are created only by males.
Kin groups are:
a. groups of people who culturally consider themselves to be relatives. b. groups of people who share the same last name. c. groups of people who were once related but now are not. d. groups of people who don't realize they are related.