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Among the poor in many urban areas there has been a development of voluntary
associations. What are these and what purpose do they serve?
Ethnoscience is a theoretical approach that focuses on the way in which members of a
culture classify their world.
Generally speaking, Brazilians who identify themselves as having African ancestry are
far worse off than those who identify themselves as white.
What do we call a cleric whose authority is based on his or her ability to achieve direct
contact with the supernatural?
What is a "high fertility country"? What national conditions would we expect in that
country?
Contrast a lineage with a clan. Name at least 3 differences.
Bilateral descent is also called double descent.
All cultures are made up of learned behaviors.
Return to Africa is a central theme of Rastafarian theology.
When someone uses the fingernails of a victim to work a spell, what kind of magic is he
using?
The solidarity of women in horticultural societies is mainly based on their participation
in religious cults and associations.
More than any other form of political organization, the state can carry out military
action for both defensive and offensive purposes.
What is meant by the term "well-founded fear"?
What is the "gray zone" that Philippe Bourgopis describes as part of his work with the
homeless and drug addicts in San Francisco?
There are two fundamental ties recognized by every society. What are they?
Why are anthropologists more politically and socially engaged today with the
populations they are studying?
Industrialization and specialization have limited the access people have to goods and
services.
What is China's "one-child policy"?
There is no such thing as a pure class or caste society.
