Consider these two contemporary American parenting styles. In more traditional parenting, baby is put to sleep alone in her own room, encouraged to self-soothe, and fed on a schedule. In the attachment parenting style, baby is fed on demand, sleeps in the parents’ bed, and her cries are attended to quickly. Based on your understanding of the anthropology of childhood, what behaviors or values do you believe these two groups of parents wish to instill in their children? Explain your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
1. A brief discussion of ethnohistories and parents’ belief systems
2. Traditional parenting focus on independence and self-reliance
3. Attachment parenting approach on security and self-assurance
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a. handemes. b. gesturemes. c. kinemes. d. primes.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Mousterian industry?
A. It centered on a disk-core technique. B. It produced many good flakes. C. It yielded a wide variety of tools. D. It produced tools of a narrow size range.
The Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is home to the foraging group known as the Ju/'hoansi San.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
More recent approaches in historical anthropology, while sharing an interest in power with world-system theorists, have focused more on
A. how anthropological theory can aid NGOs in writing an alternate history of oppressed peoples. B. local agency, the transformative actions of individuals and groups within colonized societies. C. the state's role in denying some of its citizens a place in history. D. the role of colonial bureaucracies in shaping international culture. E. the structural causes of colonialism.