American parents and teachers tend to use more diminutives when speaking to girls and more direct prohibitions when speaking to boys
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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A critical insight of medical anthropology is that:
a. Disease and medicine never exist independently from culture. b. Diseases are universal, biological entities and have little relation to culture. c. There is a single, universal medical model that is applicable to all cultures. d. Although diseases may have different names and different treatments in different cultures, the same diseases are present in all cultures. e. Traditional cultures have a greater number of diseases that modern medicine considers "psychological" than does modern culture.
Compared to the Upper Paleolithic modern humans, Neanderthal
a. burials are more complex, usually containing hundreds of tools. b. burials usually contain several individuals, precisely oriented relative to each other. c. tools are usually more sophisticated. d. tools are made of materials transported (traded) over long distances. e. burials go back at least 90,000 years at Tabun.
An object or act (verbal or non-verbal) that, by cultural conviction, stands for something else with which it has no necessary connection is a(n)
a. taboo. b. symbol. c. artifact. d. ritual. e. sign
As a part of cargo cults, supernatural beings were invoked by ________ to intercede-to kill or otherwise deflate the European big men and redistribute their wealth.
A. rites of passage B. syncretism C. revitalization movements D. magical leveling E. taboos