Bridewealth is usually given to whom?
a) The kin of a bride, particularly her father.
b) The father of a groom, as payment for accepting a daughter-in-law.
c) The bride, as a form of marriage insurance.
d) The groom, as payment for taking a man’s daughter off his hands.
ANS: A
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A) the extensive use of child labor B) the degree of free will in the participation in cane-cutting in the Dominican Republic C) the comparison between the situation in the Dominican Republic and the situation of migratory workers from Mexico to the United States D) whether or not social security should be paid to retired cane-cutters
Peter Castro uses his training as a cultural anthropologist to understand which of the following?
A. the intersection of archaeology and ethnic identity among Native Americans B. gender discrimination through language C. the universal aspects of religion and human cognition D. conflicts over access to and use of the environment
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A. overt sociopolitical strategies used to control people B. use of social controls that induce guilt and shame in the population C. the critique of power by the oppressed that goes on offstage, in private, where the power holders can't see it D. a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing their rulers' values and accepting the "naturalness" of domination E. open, public interactions between dominators and the oppressed—the outer shell of power relations
Remains of hominins that involve parts other than the skull are called:
a. phylogenetic. b. exocranial. c. postcranial. d. post-skeletal. e. endocranial.