In Robert Schrauf's comparative study, which group was used to represent immigrants with the greatest retention of their native language?
A) third-generation immigrants
B) second-generation immigrants
C) first-generation immigrants
D) fourth-generation immigrants
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
Which of the following leads groups of related people or kin networks to worship their own particular deity?
a. secret societies
b. polytheism
c. totemism
d. animism
The presumed victims of bewitchment in the Salem witchcraft scare had symptoms consistent with __________
A) ergot poisoning B) syphilis C) schizophrenia D) lead poisoning
Tribal groups lack art and music because of the mobile nature of their society
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
A key feature of language that helps explain anthropologists' continued interest in studying it is that it
A. helps them distinguish between the more and less evolved human races. B. is always changing. C. enables us to compare human and nonhuman primate linguistic grammars. D. tells us a lot about the present, although nothing about the past. E. rarely changes, so it provides a good window into linguistic uses of the past.