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28. According to Guest, what is driving the expansion of the human ecological footprint?

18. Race, class, gender, and other important axes of identity– when considered together – provide a powerful analytical framework for understanding patterns of social stratification. This framework is called: Select one:

8. Cousins who are children of a father’s brother or a mother’s sister are considered which type of cousin?

Kinship Diagram 53.  If ego is female in a system that prefers cross-cousin marriage, who might she be encouraged or required to marry?

48. In her ethnography of civil war in Mozambique, A Different Kind of War Story (1997), anthropologist Carolyn Nordstrom noted that

45. According to the article “Family and Kinship in Village India,” American students have difficulty understanding the practice of arranged marriage in India. This may be because Americans feel that marriage by choice is much better, which would be an example of:

32. As discussed in the textbook chapter on sexuality, the mati in Suriname are women who form intimate spiritual, emotional, and sexual relationships with other women but may maintain a “visiting” relationship with men for the purposes of children and economics. To understand this dynamic, Gloria Wekker suggests that we

47.  According to Jared Diamond,                                    practiced the most successful and longest lasting lifestyle in human history.   Select one:    

6. Which of the following is a form of cultivation in which areas are cleared using fire, and then the land is left to regenerate for several years? Select one:  

1. The tendency to view one’s own culture as superior and to apply one’s own cultural values in judging the behavior and beliefs of other cultures is called: Select one: