The prominence of women in the politics of Vanatinai is most likely linked to __________.

A) the absence of war
B) importance of women’s foraging
C) low fertility and child-care responsibilities
D) matrilocal residence


A) the absence of war

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The degree to which groups allocate social and material rewards based on gender is termed

a. gender materialism. b. gender stratification. c. gender dichotomy. d. sexual division of labor.

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Age set systems serve as mechanisms of social control because: a. they are associated with a belief that social deviance will cause one to suffer in the afterlife. b. only members of an individual's own age set have any authority over him. c. the members always spend a lot of time drinking together. d. individuals' initiations almost always include an intense period of training in the norms

and values of thesociety. e. individuals are socially considered to be a corporate lineage group because they have been socialized as agroup since birth.

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Among the indigenous Canela, William Crocker was:

a. adopted into networks of kinship at his field site. b. awarded the honor of outstanding fieldworker. c. considered master fieldworker by quantitative researchers. d. a pioneer in the development of field photography. e. threatened with illnesses and contracted malaria.

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During the Paleocene epoch, Plesiadapiformes:

A. became extinct. B. were not in evidence, having become extinct during the Lower epoch of the Cretaceous period. C. dramatically decreased in numbers. D. underwent an adaptive radiation.

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