An anthropologist has just arrived at a new field site and feels overwhelmed with a creepy, profound feeling of alienation, of being without some of the most ordinary, trivial (and therefore basic) cues of his culture of origin. What term best describes what he is experiencing?
A. synchrony
B. diachrony
C. agency paralysis
D. culture shock
E. configurationalism
Answer: D
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a. social, public, personal, intimate. b. intimate, social, personal, public. c. personal, intimate, public, social. d. intimate, personal, social, public .
Which of the following features characterizes platyrhines?
a. They have a relatively large body size. b. They have three premolar teeth. c. They are primarily terrestrial. d. They are primarily nocturnal.
The crania of KNM-ER 1813 and KNM-ER _________ are different enough to be two distinct species
a. 720 b. 1121 c. 1470 d. 1700
Biological anthropologists are most interested in studying variation at the individual level
a. True b. False