What was the relationship between the discipline of Anthropology and the European Enlightenment?
a. this period was associated with the theory of monogenesis, or the idea that all peoples spread from a common point of origin
b. many ideas that we associate with Anthropology actually pre-date the Enlightenment, and have precedent in the work of Arabic scholars like Ibn Khaldun
c. this time period corresponded with a need to describe and understand a variety of non-Western peoples that were being encountered by explorers and missionaries
d. the philosophies that emerged during the Enlightenment finally allowed secular academics to challenge long-accepted religious doctrines
Answer is c. this time period corresponded with a need to describe and understand a variety of non-Western peoples that were being encountered by explorers and missionaries. (One of the intellectual mainstays of the European Enlightenment was the programmatic separation of humanity from the ‘state of nature’, whether understood physically, politically or morally.Anthropologists have followed the example of many of the peoples among whom they have worked in rejecting any a prior division between nature and humanity in favor of an understanding of forms of life as emergent within fields of mutually conditioning relations, by no means confined to the human.)
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A set of cultural ideas held by a group that collectively and publicly identifies itself as distinct based on shared features is called:
a. tradition. b. custom. c. subculture. d. culture. e. ethnicity.
Gender stratification
A. allows women to become more powerful as they contribute less to the domestic sphere. B. is generally reduced when the domestic and public spheres are not sharply separated. C. allows women to become more powerful as they contribute more to the domestic sphere. D. is less pronounced among agriculturalists. E. includes societies where women control all the strategic resources.
What does the “Cannibal Dance” show an audience about the Kwakwaka’wakw people’s view of reality?
a) Life is dangerous and full of suffering. b) All humans are cannibals that must be socialized and tamed. c) People are born innocent and are later corrupted by society. d) Eating the flesh of one’s ancestors is a way of preserving their memory.
Status in chiefdoms and states is based primarily on differential access to resources
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.