What social factors are associated with famines?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1, Triggered by physical events, but are not inevitable after such events
2, Inequality of food and land distribution
3, Relief is not always provided to the people who need it most

Anthropology & Archaeology

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Twentieth-century industrialization did NOT

A. increase production-spurred strategies to sell everything industry could churn out. B. exert beneficial effects on the economies, ecologies, and populations of "developing" nations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. C. bring new industries and new jobs. D. result in dramatically increased production. E. give rise to a culture of consumption.

Anthropology & Archaeology

The cultural definitions of what it means to be a male or female today:

a. are determined by biological differences. b. are independent of biological differences. c. stem from biological differences that are less significant today. d. developed about 60 million years ago when our species first emerged. e. have no relationship to sex.

Anthropology & Archaeology

If Sweet Dreams controls 85 percent of the market for insomnia drugs and the remaining 15 percent of the market includes many other, smaller competing firms, Sweet Dreams is a ________ firm.

A) competitive fringe B) dominant C) perfectly competitive D) monopoly

Anthropology & Archaeology

Most anthropologists use photography as part of their data-gathering techniques

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Anthropology & Archaeology