What is the anthropological definition of marriage?

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Marriage is a culturally sanctioned union between two or more people that establishes certain rights and obligations between the people, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.

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List the five major food-procurement categories found among the world’s populations

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Discuss why it is so difficult to come up with a universally applicable definition for art.

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In order to understand the basic dynamics of cultural systems, Bronislaw Malinowski introduced and popularized the method of

a. ethnology. b. participant observation. c. recall ethnography. d. synchronic observation.

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What is glottochronology and what does it contribute to the field of anthropological linguistics?

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