The saying, "I against my brother; my brother and I against my cousins; I, my brother, and my cousins against the outsider," best describes the organization of
A) band society.
B) a segmentary lineage.
C) a kindred.
D) a matriclan.
E) complex industrial society.
B
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a. the current calendar year. b. the calendar year the research was published. c. the year AD 1950. d. the year AD 2000. e. the last full calendar year.
Primate Paleontology is the study of
a. primate behavior b. primate fossil record c. primate anatomy d. primate intelligence e. primate dentition
Robert Bellah (1978) coined the term world-rejecting religion to describe most forms of Christianity, including Protestantism. More generally, world-rejecting religions
A. are a recent historical phenomenon. B. tend to reject the natural-the mundane, ordinary, material, secular-world and focus instead on a higher realm of reality. C. are shamanistic religions that reject the encroachment of capitalism and modernity. D. focus on the effects that heavenly bodies such as the moon, sun, and Mars have on social life. E. reject the material world and focus on the body's internal biological balance.
The name most closely associated with the system traditionally used to classify living things is
A. Darwin B. Linnaeus C. Lyell D. Lamarck