Major changes in Skolt Lapp society occurred because:
a. men switched from reindeer herding to other sources of income.
b. the number of reindeer declined because of climate change.
c. snowmobiles were introduced to herd reindeer.
d. society became hierarchical instead of egalitarian.
e. women began to go to the university and get jobs outside the home.
c
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Scientific classifications are:
A. ends in themselves B. means of discovering relationships C. derived from empirical studies E. all of these
How did anthropology help disprove assumptions by American educators in the 1960s that African American schoolchildren rarely drank milk because they were poor and uneducated?
A) Anthropological research has shown that many ethnic groups in different parts of the world, including Asians, Arabs, Jews, and African Americans, avoid fresh milk because they cannot digest it. B) Anthropologists established that milk was intentionally being withheld from black students as a form of institutionalized racism. C) Researchers established that African Americans can afford milk but do not like the taste of it. D) Anthropologists demonstrated that all ethnic groups who do not drink fresh milk are poor and uneducated, not just African Americans.
The term ________ refers to a unilineal descent group whose members claim, but cannot demonstrate, common descent from an apical ancestor.
A. extended family B. lineage C. clan D. family of orientation E. family of procreation
The anthropologists of the nineteenth century believed that cultures transformed over time into more complex and superior cultures. This type of thinking is called
a. materialism. b. unilineal evolutionism. c. functionalism. d. particularism.