In what ways can food itself be considered a cultural practice?

What will be an ideal response?


More than simply to satisfy nutritional needs, food is used to celebrate rituals and religious events, to establish relationships among people, as well as to structure time within a day.

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Systematic changes in activity influence the development of the human skeleton

a. True b. False

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Anthropologists are concerned with all humans, both past and present, as well as humans’ behavior patterns, thought systems, and material possessions

a. True b. False

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Stage directions in a published script:

a. are the director's best clues to blocking the show well b. represent several past directors' best thinking c. must be ignored because they are clichéd d. may be helpful on occasion e. should not be consulted because to do so would stifle creativity

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If a perfectly competitive firm is producing at the output level where marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost and at this output level, the market price exceeds the firm's average total cost, the firm is ________.

A) not producing at the profit-maximizing output level B) earning a competitive return C) incurring an economic loss D) earning economic profits

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