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Lakota is a language that uses gendered speech.
Over the past 500 years, about half of the world's 12,000 languages have become
extinct.
How are cousins viewed as marriage partners cross-culturally?
Answer:Will vary
Passive bilingualism is when someone comprehends more than one language but is only
able to express him/herself in one of them.
Temporal orientation allows an individual to learn about the moral values, ideals, and
principles that are culturally significant.
Discuss why cultural evolution is sometimes confused with progress.
Answer:Will vary
The Micmacs are a tribe in Massachusetts.
The Upper Paleolithic still continues today.
Compare the role of kinship across foraging, horticultural, agricultural, and industrial
societies.
Answer:Will vary
What is the Native American "talking circle"?
Answer:Will vary
What does it mean to say that anthropology is one of the most "human" of the human
sciences?
Answer:Will vary
The most important symbolic aspect of culture is religion.
Diffusion can occur without acculturation.
Discuss the role that culture plays in defining the "wants and needs" of a people, using
the Trobriand Islanders as an example. How does North American culture function to
define the wants and needs of North Americans?
Answer:Will vary
Whatever descent system is used, the kin of both mother and father are important to the
social structure of every society.
Distinguish between a primary and secondary innovation. Give examples.
Answer:Will vary
Several different kinship systems are used cross-culturally. Discuss the adaptive
advantages of having distinct ways of reckoning kinship
Answer:Will vary
All modernizing societies undergo, in a fixed sequence, the stages of technological
development, agricultural development, industrialization, and urbanization.
Define technology, and describe how it varies in societies with different economic
systems.
Answer:Will vary
