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Fundamentalists are correct in seeing a rise in secularism in contemporary North America. Which of the following statements about irrigation is NOT true? A. Irrigated fields typically increase in value through time. B. Irrigation is one of the defining characteristics […]

De facto discrimination occurs when laws exist that harm a specific group and its members. Genocide refers to the physical destruction of an ethnic or religious group through mass murder. Answer: True One theory regarding the universality of the incest […]

In bands, the leader occupies an official office with coercive control over the members of the community. Health care systems refers to the nationalized health care services that exist only in core industrial nations. Answer: False Rites of passage involve […]

According to Karl Marx, classes are A. complementary, in that they each do different tasks necessary for the survival of the society. B. part of the original, preindustrial social system of humans. C. powerful collective forces that could mobilize human […]

Developmental anthropology is the branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimensions of, moral development. Traditionally, ethnographers have tried to understand the whole of a particular culture. Answer: True The reason students of non-Western […]

The world’s linguistic diversity has been cut in half, as measured by the number of distinct languages extant, in the past 500 years, and half of the remaining languages are predicted to disappear during this century. In the caste system […]

Human biological differences are evident only to individuals who wrongfully sustain the validity of human races. Behaviors associated with sports fandom could be considered secular rituals. Answer: True In a study among the Hopi of northeastern Arizona, more than a […]

A policy of ethnic expulsion aims at removing from a country groups who are culturally different. There are many examples, including Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s; Uganda expelling 74,000 Asians in 1972; and so on. The neofascist parties of contemporary western […]

Sociolinguistics has demonstrated that men lack the linguistic capacity to distinguish between slight changes in color. Hypodescent in the United States automatically determines the race of a child whose parents belong to different racial groups. Answer: True Although humans do […]

Cultural relativists believe that a culture should be judged only according to the standards and traditions of that culture and not according to the standards of other cultural traditions. Colonialism often involves dividing up ethnic groups to weaken their authority. […]

People have to eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how to do so. This is an example of how A. culture takes the natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express them […]

Anthropologists study only non-Western cultures. The origins of BEV are found mostly in West Africa, not in the dialects of the southern part of the United States. Answer: False Acculturation is the process by which people lose the culture that […]

The role of natural selection in producing variation in human skin color illustrates the explanatory approach to explaining human biological diversity. Globalization promotes intercultural communication, migration, and commerce, thereby increasing the opportunities for what the text describes as postmodern moments. […]

This chapter mentions the work of Wolf and Mintz, both students of Julian Steward, as illustrations of approaches that A. put human agency at the center of cultural analysis. B. focus on the study of cultures as closed systems, untouched […]

Radiative forcings work to warm and cool the earth. If these didn”t exist, there would be no global warming. mile Durkheim, an early scholar of religion, stressed what he termed religious effervescence. Anthropologists too have stressed the collective, social, shared, […]