Polygynous marriages often serve important economic and political functions, with the number of wives a man has serving as an indicator of his wealth, prestige, and status.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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Part of the anthropological definition of culture is that it is shared or collective. This means that a. the people who share a culture are all members of the same nation-state. b. people who share a culture are able to communicate and interact without serious misunderstandings orneeding to explain their behavior
c. culture is always shared by an easily identifiable group of people. d. people who share a culture have a single, shared cultural identity.
__________ are named groups of people who believe that they are relatives even though they may not be able to trace their actual relationships with all members of their group
a. Lineages b. Fictive kin c. Patriclans d. Clans
One of the ways people managed food scarcity during the Paleolithic was by:
a. decreasing the variety of food eaten b. incorporating less favored food into their diet c. devoting themselves to other tasks until food became available d. increasing the amount of water they drank
Divorce was rare in agricultural states because of a number of factors.
a. Both the corporate character of the extended family and the necessity for cooperative labor among family members usually lead to normative constraints against divorce. b. Marriage was the most important way that land was transferred, and marriages were the basis of alliances between families and kin groups. c. In some societies, marriage became a sacred institution and there were laws against divorce. d. Divorce was not allowed in many, if not all, agricultural states because of the emotional disruption it caused to the family members, often making them unfit for agricultural labor.