Why are many peasant farmers in less developed countries resistant to adopting practices and crops even when they are genuine improvements?
a. Peasant farmers have supernatural beliefs about farming and fear offending the spirit world.
b. The peasant farmers do not understand that there are crops and practices that might be more efficient thanthe ones they use
c. Subsistence farmers know that, while not ideal, the plants and practices they have been using are welladapted to the local environment.
d. All of these are reasons that peasant farmers resist change.
c
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A. fueled the general expansion of the American educational system, including academic anthropology. B. promoted renewed interest in applied anthropology during the 1950s and 1960s. C. brought an end to the world system. D. produced a new interest in ethnic diversity. E. brought anthropology into most high school curricula.
Which of the following distinguish(s) the Neandertals from Homo sapiens?
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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and values of thesociety. e. individuals are socially considered to be a corporate lineage group because they have been socialized as agroup since birth.