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I have a friend who is from a small town in the Midwest of the United States. She thinks that if she follows all the social rules she has been taught, then good things will always happen to her, and she will live a long, happy life. I have another friend who was raised in a different country. She thinks that no matter what she does, things will always work out badly. Objectively, they both have a more or less equal number of bad things and good things in their lives. Which of the following statements would an anthropologist say about these two people?

Ethnography and participant observation are the primary tools of fieldwork for

The case of the Igbo Women’s War shows how women effectively used _________(through song, dance, noise, and “in-your-face” behavior) to subvert _________and, in so doing, gained greater influence.

Functionalism is a theoretical perspective developed by Malinowski. If an anthropologist is a functionalist, s/he tends to think that most institutions and customs in a society serve a rational purpose.

The author of “Shakespeare in the Bush,” Laura Bohannan, concluded that

The Aghori of India often exhibit behaviors that make them terrifying to other people around them, especially other Hindus. Which of the following statements about the Aghori are true?

Most anthropologists agree that one of the most basic needs that human beings have across all cultures is to be as wealthy as possible.

According to Kottak, the “call systems” of various species of animals lack the capability of displacement and productivity (as far as we know).

Anthropology includes all of the following except

When Kottak discussed industrial alienation, he used as an example