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25 Cards in this Set
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When the couple lives with the wife's family, it is referred to as
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matrilineal residence
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of religions?
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They all involve supernatural beings
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Through what means do people attempt to mechanistically control supernatural forces?
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magic
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The Inuit peoples of the Arctic are classified as
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foragers
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Which of the following forms of technology is specifically related to the practice of agriculture?
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plows
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In capitalist societies:
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firms produce goods to create wealth
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Flipping coins and reading your horoscope are classified as:
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imitative magic.
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To Buddhists, spinning special wheels is a form of:
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prayer
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Which subsistence strategy supports the lowest population density?
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foraging
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A ____ is organized around the female line.
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kindred
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Under the levirate rule, if Tom and Jane are married and
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Tom dies, Jane will marry one of Tom's brothers
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Cuban Santeria is a mixture of:
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African religions, Catholicism, and French spiritualism.
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Parallel-cousin marriage involves:
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children who are third cousins.
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Which of the following is the oldest form of human subsistence?
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transhumant pastoralism
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All of the following are subsistence stragtegies EXCEPT
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teaching
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When cash or goods are given by the groom's kin to the bride's kin to seal the marriage, it is classified as:
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dowry
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Unlike the other subsistence strategies, in industrialism the focus:
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is on forces of transportation and communication only.
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When kin group interests are the basis of mate selection it is called arranged marriage.
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True
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According to George Gmelch, baseball magic is used primarily to improve hitting and pitching.
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True
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Among the Gebusi, men are responsible for mourning. .
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False
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Kinship systems are cultural phenomena.
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True
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All societies practice some form of the levirate and sororate.
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False
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Exogamy specifies that a person must marry within a specific group of individuals.
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False
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The Azande believe that witches have a substance inside them called mangu, which causes them to be able to harm others without even being conscious of it.
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TRUE
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Haitian vodou includes one high god, Baron Samedi.
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False
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