Which are perhaps the most important medical practitioners in societies lacking full-time occupational specialization?

A) physicians
B) priests
C) shamans
D) sorcerers


C) shamans

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The cultural rule that one marries within one's own group is known as __________. This cultural rule restricts gene flow and affects the genetic variation within and between populations

A. polymorphism B. polytypical marriage C. endogamy D. acclimatization

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When the wage rate rises and nothing else changes, there is ________ the labor supply curve.

A) movement down B) right shift C) left shift D) movement up

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Many thousands of untouchables have converted to __________ as a protest against their treatment under the caste system

a. Hinduism b. Islam c. Christianity d. Buddhism

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This chapter's survey of the major theoretical perspectives that have characterized anthropology highlights all of the following EXCEPT

A. the discipline's profound commitment to understanding human diversity. B. a continuous concern with scientific fundamentals and whether or not anthropology's research subject is best studied scientifically. C. a continuous concern with how to define and study culture. D. attention to whether or not anthropological data ought to be comparative across time and space. E. the theoretical and methodological shift from complexity to models that simplify human diversity.

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