Anthropologists suspend cultural relativism when studying the practices of:
a. the Dani, who cut off a finger from the hand of any close female relative of a man who dies.
b. the Kikuyu custom of female circumcision.
c. the Inuit custom of leaving the aged out in the cold to die.
d. the Bannock-Shoshoni, who commit crimes on the reservation.
e. none of the above. Anthropologists do not suspend the practice of cultural relativism in their work.
e
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Refer to the figure below. If the price of sunglasses is currently $70, market forces will cause the quantity supplied to ________ and the quantity demanded to ________ until the price is equal to the equilibrium price.
A) decrease; decrease
B) increase; decrease
C) increase; increase
D) decrease; increase
In what period did European scholars first begin a systematic study of human variation?
a. 19th/20th centuries b. 16th/17th centuries c. 15th century d. 18th/19th centuries
Discuss the following with regard to the Olduwan/Oldowan and Acheulian tool traditions: how they were named, where they were found, which species used them, what they looked like, and for what they were used.
What will be an ideal response?
How might bipedalism be adaptive for maintaining a stable body temperature?
A) It cools the body by reducing the overall surface area. B) It warms the body by placing the head closer to the sun. C) It helps to cool the body by limiting the surface area directly exposed to the sun. D) It helps to warm the body by increasing the surface area of the back.