The advent of bronze metallurgy primarily created advances in:
a. social structure and architecture
b. warfare and farming
c. religious practice
d. hunting and diversification of labor
b
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How do social scientists generally measure the degree of class mobility?
A) by comparing the class of individuals with the class of their parents B) by ranking the various classes living within a single neighborhood C) by determining the class of friends of the average middle-class child D) by measuring the number of classes that most people believe exist in their society
Which subdiscipline of anthropology is concerned with various aspects of human language?
a. Ethnology b. Applied anthropology c. Primatology d. Anthropometry e. Linguistic anthropology
Marcel Mauss, and many other anthropologists, theorized that an important function of gift giving is to:
a. Hold societies together. b. Expand the technological base of a society. c. Build up the economic resources of some families at the expense of other families. d. Provide an outlet for the innate human desire to give and receive gifts. e. Build up the power of the state.
According to the text, perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of the discipline of anthropology is
a. that anthropologists teach in addition to doing fieldwork. b. its scope. c. the limited range of topics for study. d. its age.