The Westermarck hypothesis links brother-sister incest aversion to __________
a. status
b. culturally sanctioned laws
c. learned behavior
d. children being raised in proximity
Answer d
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When a society practices fraternal polyandry:
a. Brothers share a wife. b. It is the younger brother's responsibility to find a bride for the older brother. c. Two sisters are married to two brothers. d. They always also practice sororal polygyny. e. Women have much more power than men.
European moral opposition to slavery and the slave trade increased during the mid–nineteenth century causing the slave trade to decline and finally end:
a. immediately after the Gettysburg address. b. around 1900. c. just before World War I. d. around 1870.
Which of the following is a primary weakness of French Structuralism?
a. It does not focus on interesting cultural questions. b. There is too much fieldwork associated with this theory and very little application. c. The theory takes account solely of European cultures and is ethnocentric. d. Structuralism is too psychological in its approach. e. It is a theory that cannot be tested empirically.
How might you determine whether hominins were hunters or scavengers?
A) use chemical analysis to determine whether or not hominins had regular meat in their diet B) determine whether stone tools and animal remains in the same deposit have the same date C) investigate which marks were made first on animal bones—predator tooth marks, or stone tool cuts D) experiment with Oldowan-style tools to see if they are capable of butchering an animal