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Which of the following statements is true of your professor’s research in the Caribbean?

All of the following are proper roles for applied anthropologists EXCEPT

Just as in other areas of anthropology, the study of language involves investigating what is or isn’t shared across human populations and why these differences or similarities exist. The linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language, so that all languages have a common structural basis. He calls this set of rules

Which of the following is NOT true of your professor’s applied anthropological research?

In linguistics, what is “abstraction?”

How does acculturation differ from diffusion, or cultural borrowing?

Based on his observation that contact between neighboring tribes had existed since humanity’s beginnings and covered enormous areas, Franz Boas argued

Which of the following is a major difference between Brazilian and U.S. racial taxonomies?

What does the film “The Shackles of Tradition” show us about Franz Boas’s early life and early scientific career?

What is the term for an expert on a particular aspect of native life?