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Discuss the point of view that language mirrors or reflects, rather than determines,
cultural reality. Provide examples to support that view.
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Distinguish between the entoptic phenomena and the iconic images of trance.
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Humans are programmed for language.
It takes many years of practice for people to master the muscular movements needed to
produce the precise sounds of any particular language.
Define a culture-bound syndrome, and give an example of ethnic psychosis.
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Define ethnographic fieldwork.
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Explain the term hypothesis, and provide an example of it in anthropology.
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Muslim beliefs have an effect on Islamic banking.
What does kinship terminology reveal about human relations?
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The change from subsistence farming to cash crops leads to economic improvement in
the countries that make this change.
What role does tradition play in accommodation and assimilation?
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Briefly explain the concept of bilateral descent.
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The development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by
people whose ancestry was otherwise distinct is called parallel evolution.
Describe the variation that exists among nonindustrial societies in their organization of
labor by age.
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Explain why the cultural definition of marriage refers to "persons" rather than "a man
and a woman."
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Give four examples of divination.
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