A primary function of rites of intensification is to:
a. Help an individual through a personal crisis.
b. Help a young man in his search for a guardian spirit.
c. Regulate male-female conflict within a society.
d. Reinforce the values and norms of the community and strengthen group identity.
e. Restrain the ghosts of dead people from taking revenge on the living.
D
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When humans enter an ecosystem they tend to
A) increase its diversity. B) increase its resilience. C) remain unaffected by other species. D) become the dominant species. E) abandon the use of technology.
Paleoanthropologists estimate at least six genera among the early African fossils
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Why are physical anthropologists concerned with human variation?
a. It focuses on separating different species. b. They want to identify the factors that produce variation. c. They want to prove that race is real. d. The possibility exists to classify humans ethnically and racially. e. Physical anthropologists are not concerned with human variation.
Which of the following is NOT a trait associated with postmodernism?
a. discontinuity b. socially shaped people c. socially shaped truth d. differences e. history as progressive