Research on the communication skills of nonhuman primates reveals their inability to refer to objects that are not immediately present in their environment, such as food and danger. The ability to describe things and events that are not present is called
A. cultural transmission.
B. displacement.
C. linguistic imagination.
D. phonology.
E. productivity.
Answer: B
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Although the nuclear family remains a cultural ideal for many Americans, nuclear families accounted for 19 percent of American households in 2016. In fact, other domestic arrangements outnumber the traditional U.S. household five to one. All of the following are among the reasons for this trend EXCEPT that
A. job demands compete with romantic attachments. B. contrary to expectations, the importance of kinship is growing in contemporary nations. C. women are increasingly joining men in the workforce. D. divorce rates have risen. E. it is increasingly economically feasible for women to delay marriage and yet live away from their family of orientation.
An ongoing process of fusion and change is called:
a. syncretism. b. evolution. c. cultural relativism. d. assimilation.
Your team has uncovered an ancient mass grave site with a number of the remains appearing to have trauma to the skull. What type of anthropologist would be helpful in determining how these individuals died?
a. bioarchaeologist b. cultural anthropologist c. forensic anthropologist d. primatologist