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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:  

35. As noted in the text, in order to better understand the functioning of alternative legal structures that exist outside state control, anthropologist Hussein Ali Agrama spent years conducting ethnographic research on                                                                        .

19. The ability of a dominant or powerful group to create consent and agreement within a population WITHOUT the use of violence or threat is a process called? Select one:

20. After winning the lottery, a couple bought a new estate home and started a collection of fine art and luxury vehicles. They soon found that they had ascended into a new bracket of wealth. The term to refer to the movement of one’s class position, upward or downward, in stratified societies is

9. Cultural expectations that people marry within a particular group, such as rules emphasizing marriage with someone who is from a similar economic, religious, or ethnic background, is known as                                    . Select one:

39. What is the name for the flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups?