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Clifford Geertz - Clifford Geertz () was arguably the most influential scholar in promoting interpretive or symbolic analysis as the overall agenda for anthropology as a discipline. . . . Geertz urged anthropologists to move away from efforts to explain and predict, turning toward description and interpretation. Geertz's work has been called 'dramaturgical' because he saw human social life as akin to a drama in which people take roles and play parts on the cultural stage" · What does t...

SOCIOLOGY EXAM (FINAL EXAM- ROBERT MORTENSON) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ Families >> Answer-> are relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group. Family of orientation >> Answer-> is the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place. Family of procreation >> Answer-> is the family that...

Athabasca University Anthropology 275 Midterm Exam Questions With Verified Answers Personality - answeran individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting Ethnopsychology - answerThe study of how various cultures define and create personality identity and mental health Enculturation - answerThe social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations through both informal and formal processes Cultural Configuration - answercultures are formed thr...

West Africa TCI Final Exam Prep 2024. Artifact - ANSWER An object made or used by people in the past. Nok - ANSWER An African people who lived in what is now Nigeria that mastered ironworking. Sahara - ANSWER A huge desert stretching across most of North Africa Sahel - ANSWER A zone of semi-desert, south of the Sahara, where short grasses, small bushes, and a few trees grow Niger River - ANSWER The longest river in West Africa, and a trading highway in early times Tribute - ANSWE...

affluence (noun) Having a great amount money or wealth. birthright (noun) The right or status someone possesses from birth. contingent (noun) A group or part of a group. disown (verb) To negate the ownership or any connection with something or someone. foursome (noun) A group of four people; quartet; four players divided into two groups in a game. infidelity (noun) The quality of being unfaithful, usually in a marital context. initiate (verb) To welcome someo...

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GLST 290 final exam Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass) be able to explain how these food strategies are affected by globalization - Answer️️ -foraging societies are extinct and agricultural systems have grown larger and provide most of the food for most of the people in the world today (pg. 120) Know formalist theory and substantivist theory - Answer️️ -it holds that economic behavior and motivations vary but culture and logic used is culturally universal= formalist theor...

Aboriginal Ethics: Traditional and Contemporary Antonia Mills and Rheanna Robinson University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada Synonyms First nations ethics; Indigenous ethics; Native American ethics Introduction Aboriginal Ethics were traditionally based on understandings of how relationships with the people within and between different groups and nations and with all the life forms can be created and maintained, with the focus on preserving positive relations...

Anthropology Exam 1 TAMU Lynch (2023/2024) Rated A Anthropology The comparative and holistic study of human biology and culture Human paleontology Biological anthropology. Study of human and primate fossil records. Human origins Osteology Study of human skeleton Archaeology Study of human cultural remains, reconstruct past human societies. Artifacts found with human burials. Porotic Hypertosis medical disorder caused by malnutiriton and iron deficiency anemia resulting in the bones of the cr...

Which area is the ancestral homeland for most black Americans? West Africa One of the earliest civilizations in the world and built along the Nile River is: Egypt Pharaohs were: kings of Egypt True or False. Women in Egypt had a number of roles; many could own property independent of their husbands. True Egyptians believed in: polytheism Camels were introduced to Africa by: the Asians Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest rulers the world has known: w...