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which statement best relates to the status of women in most societies?
a. economy of effort theory
b. political warfare theory
c. women's status will be high when they contribute substantially to primary subsistence |
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| c. women's status will be high when they contribute substantially to primary subsistence |
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Many Agta women of the Phillippines regularly hunt wild pig and deer. What percent of wild game is killed by Agta women?
a. almost 20%
b. almost 30%
c. almost 40% |
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of the following societies, which is the most pro-homosexual?
a. america
b. the Etoro
c. The Siwans
d. the Papago |
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Mbuti Pygmy women:
a. are highly valued, but have few personal rights and virtually no influence in political decision-making
b. have practically no rights are very little influence
c. have unusually high status |
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| c. have unusually high status |
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Among the Iroquois, women:
a. had a great deal of say over who the group's leaders were
b. had little say over how the goods they produced were distributed
c. lived in their husband's home |
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| a. had a great deal of say over who the group's leaders were |
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premarital sex is:
a. considered good for boys in some societies but is apparently universally discouraged for girls
b. actively encouraged in some societies
c. accepted in some societies by apparently never actively encouraged |
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| b. actively encouraged in some societies |
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what percentage of societies do not allow women to participate in warfare?
a. 87
b. 75
c. 65 |
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A berdache is a male transvestite in which society?
a. Nayar
b. Etoro
c. Cheyenne
d. Azande |
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In which society does a young male move in with his betrothed's family for a trial?
a. The Taramiut Inuit
The Trobriand Islanders
c. The Kwoma of New Guinea
d. The Yapese of Micronesia |
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which of the following societies would be more likely to practice bride service?
a. Asian horticulturalists
b. African agriculturalists
c. Native American food collectors
d. European industrialists |
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| c. Native American food collectors |
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a ____ is a rule that obliges a man to marry his brother's widow.
a. sororate
b. exogamy
c. endogamy
d. levirate |
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ambilineal descent is most related to:
a. unilocal residence
b. recent depopulation
c. the equal contribution to subsistence by both men and women
d. the absence of warfare |
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what is the least common for of residence pattern?
a. Matrilocal
b. bilocal
d. avunculocal
d. neolocal |
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| what factor has been discovered by Elman Service to explain bilocal residence? |
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| a drastic loss of population because of infectious disease |
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____ descent affiliates an individual with kin related to him or her through mean or women.
a. patrilineal
b. matrilineal
c. unilineal
d. ambilineal |
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Most people in the United States practice which kinship system?
a. ambilineal
b. double unilineal descent
c. bilateral
d. unilineal |
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a ____ is a set of kin whose members believe themselves to be descended form a common ancestor or ancestress, but can't specify the links back to that ancestry.
a. kindred
b. totem
c. lineage
d. clan |
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If a society is divided into two unilineal descent groups, anthropologists call each group a:
a. moiety
b. phratry
c. lineage
d. parsimony |
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