What is the ethnographic present?
A. The dates that the anthropologist was living in the culture
B. The period before Westernization
C. The period that documents culture change
D. The dates that include culture contact
E. The date the ethnography was published
B. The period before Westernization
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In "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," Miner points out that the fundamental belief that underlies Nacireman body ritual is
a. that the human body is ugly and subject to disability and disease. b. the concern about the beauty of the body. c. that the health of the body depends on the health of the mind. d. that disease of the body is caused by a person's failure to take care of it properly.
What is the key distinction between tribes and chiefdoms?
A) A chiefdom has some formal structure that integrates communities into a political unit. B) A chiefdom has more nomadic communities. C) A tribe has greater reliance on agriculture and greater economic output. D) A tribe places a great deal of emphasis on kinship connections.
Systematic settlement pattern surveys:
A. are typically conducted on small areas, comprising a single site. B. provide broad information on a larger scale than can typically result from excavations. C. cannot be used in Mesoamerica due to problems with the terrain. D. were first used before World War I. E. None of the answers are correct.
At one time or another, much of the world came under direct European colonization
Indicate whether the statement is true or false