Why did Franz Boas call for a moratorium on theory?
What will be an ideal response?
He did this because there was a great scarcity of ethnographic data and until fieldwork
and data collection could be advanced and evidence produced, theory was not valid.
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In a recent article, Netting et al. argued that an important reason for the success of the Kofyar move to commercial agriculture and the market economy was that
A) they were subsidized by foreign development agencies. B) they used their cash earnings to hire laborers to do most of the work on the farms. C) government advisers helped them and taught them new agricultural techniques. D) without government assistance or intervention, they made the change gradually and learned from their mistakes. E) none of the above.
In the Trobriand Islands of Melanesia, __________ is accompanied by intense singing by men
a. eating b. working c. mourning d. marriage
Which of the following statements about peasants is NOT true?
A. They are not part of the world market. B. They all live in state-organized societies. C. They owe rent to the government. D. They owe rent to landlords. E. They practice small-scale agriculture without modern technology such as chemical fertilizers and tractors.
Siddhartha Gautama, Jesus, and Muhammad are all __________
a. revitalizationists b. nativistic c. prophets d. fundamentalists