People perform religious rituals as:
a. a way of invoking supernatural beings to control those forces over which they feel they have no control.
b. a practice with as little emotion as possible, because they seldom really believe rituals are effective.
c. a way of demonstrating the strong control they have over their own lives.
d. a way to demonstrate social importance and validation for their lives.
e. a way to obtain political, social, and economic power.
a
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Imagine yourself attending a performance in Italy about 1550. The acting troupe comprises both men and women, masked and unmasked performers, who seem to be improvising a story about a recent scandalous love affair. You know that you are watching a:
a. a Neoclassical comedy b. a Neoclassical tragedy c. commedia dell’arte d. a satyr pla e. an intermezzo
Proconsul __________
a. had a short torso and long arms b. had a monkey-like dental pattern but the body morphology of an ape c. lacked a tail but had monkey-like locomotion d. was fully bipedal
An economy dominated by machines and based on big factories is an industrial society
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The appearance of the sort of forelimb-dominated locomotion (arm hanging and swinging) characteristic of living apes:
A) was a very late development in hominoid evolution B) can be neither dated nor described accurately at present C) preceded the split between ape stock and hominids D) all of the above E) B and C only