Using what you know about cross-cultural comparisons of marital practices, discuss the following statement: Serial monogamy is the result of a cultural emphasis on individualism, whereas polygamy is the result of a cultural emphasis on social responsibility.
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a. are fairly recent, emerging with free trade agreements beginning in the 1990s. b. began as early as the 1500s with the plunder of resources from the “new” world. c. only affect the standard of living of the nations and peoples of the developing world. d. decreased during the twentieth century.
In his study of a Chicago street gang in the 1960s, Lincoln Keiser suggested boys often joined this gang:
a) to make money. b) because they usually had relatives already involved. c) for protection from being accosted. d) to be more attractive to girls.
In what kinds of rituals do we tend to find liminality?
A) Rites of redress B) Rites of intensification C) Rites of passage D) Rites of recurrence E) Rites of renewal
Why does the study of ape language capabilities advance the understanding of human language?
A) Apes are capable of everything short of verbal language, which helps us improve communication with deaf people. B) It is clear that apes can only mimic human sign language, which indicates that human language is truly unique to our lineage. C) Apes have at least some of the capabilities of language, which helps us better understand the evolution of human language. D) Ape language abilities are closer to humans than to other primates, which adds to our knowledge of the human family tree.