Cultural narratives that have validity as artifacts of culture and experience are called ___________
a. oral traditions
b. myths
c. narratives
d. genealogies
Answer: a
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Cultural adaptation:
a. occurs at the population level via natural selection. b. occurs at the individual level during childhood. c. involves using material culture or learned practices to make living possible in certain settings. d. usually occurs in adults, not children.
Based on recent breakthroughs in human genetic research, anthropologists have come to recognize that:
a. we are born with culture already encrypted in our biology and there is only a little that we must learn b. an identifiable portion of our behavior is genetically influenced c. biology and culture are one and the same and cannot be separated d. large aspects of our genetic makeup are behaviorally influenced
What hypothesis has S. N. Eisenstadt developed to explain the creation of age-set associations?
A) Age-set systems arise when kinship groups fail to carry out important political or economic functions. B) Age-set systems serve as an intermediate organization between egalitarian and socially stratified societies. C) Only societies with age-set systems can maintain traditional subsistence patterns in an age of territorial disputes. D) Age-set systems are a natural expression of a high degree of gender stratification.