Which of the following is an example of forced acculturation?
A) schools for Native American children
B) the popularity of McDonald’s restaurants in Japan
C) teens across Europe watching MTV
D) Inuit hunters using snowmobiles and GPS technology
A) schools for Native American children
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Which of the following statements about kinship systems is NOT true?
a. They create very close social ties. b. They provide moral coercion to adhere to social norms. c. They are extremely stable and do not change over time. d. They involve strong bonds of obligation. e. They provide security for their members.
Radcliffe-Brown advocated social anthropology as a synchronic rather than a diachronic science-that is, a study
A. of societies as made up of individuals, not as a sum greater than its parts. B. that compares cultural traits within the same society and not across societies. C. of societies as they exist today (synchronic, one at a time) rather than across time (diachronic). D. of societies across time (synchronic) rather than across space (diachronic). E. of culture in motion (synchronic) rather than as a static entity (diachronic).
The term protolanguage refers to the limited communication systems of nonhuman primates
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The Hopi believe in __________, or powerful spirits who can bring rain
a. gods b. goddesses c. kachinas d. kivas