Both Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were pioneers in the culture and personality movement in anthropology
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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A traveler in Jakarta, Indonesia, witnessed a very interesting practice of ethnomedicine designed to lower blood pressure and relieve pain. What was it?
a. They were bathing in Coca Cola, allowing the seltzer to bubble around their bodies. b. They were laying on train tracks to sense small electric charges. c. They were eating various types of local insects believed to be therapeutic. d. They were covering themselves in manure and then sun-bathing. e. They were bathing in aspirin dissolved in gasoline.
If an individual is born with only one X chromosome as a sexual set, this is called:
a. intersexuality b. Down syndrome c. Turner syndrome d. androgen insensitivity syndrome
The term ethnography refers to
A. decipherment of ancient texts. B. analysis of the chemical composition of marble. C. descriptive studies of living peoples. D. study of prehistoric textiles.
According to Nesse & Williams in "Evolution and The Origins of Disease", the mammalian eye, the heart valve, and the wisdom tooth are examples of the perfection achieved by natural selection in evolution.
a. True b. False