This chapter begins with a bold claim: Anthropologists study human beings wherever and whenever they find them. Yet there are limits to when and where anthropologists can carry out their work. Can you think of any? How might your consideration of these limits affect how you would design an anthropological study?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary
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What possible situation must be considered when deciding to provide vaccinations against life-threatening disease to a new community?
A) if the vaccine has minor side effects, such as headache or fever B) what time of year to give the vaccine, since its efficacy is seasonal C) if social stratification might prevent every individual from receiving the vaccine D) whether the society has the resources to sustain the potential population increase
At Stage 2 of the demographic transition, when the population is growing rapidly,
A) the birth rate remains high, while the death rate is dropping. B) birth and death rates are more or less in balance, as both are low. C) the birth rate is dropping, while the death rate is rising. D) birth and death rates are more or less in balance, as both are high. E) the death rate remains high, while the birth rate is dropping.
Cross-cultural studies show that homicide rates mostly decline after the death penalty is abolished
a. True b. False
The classification of foods into categories of kosher (edible) and traif (not edible) is an example of __________
A. preoperational reasoning B. cognitive dissonance C. binary opposition D. ethnocentric enculturation