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how are cultral rights different from human rights
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cultural rights are vested in gorups, not in individuals
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in anthropology cultural relativism is not a moral postition, but a mythological one.
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It states that.... to understand another culturre we must try to see how the people in that culture see things.
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the tendency to view one's own culture as superior and to use ones own standards and values in judging others is called
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ethnocentrism
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what are cultural particulars?
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traits unique to a given culture, not shared with any others.
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which of the following least explains the existence of cultural generalities?
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the arbitrariness of the sign
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Which of the following is a cultural generality?
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the nuclear family
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What is exogamy and insist taboo examples of?
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Cultural universals
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The incest taboo is a universal culture but...
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the definition of what constitutes what incest varies widely across cultures.
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Which of the following statements about culture is not true?
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it is transmitted genetically
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What process is most responsible for the existence of international culture?
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cultural borrowing or diffusion, whether direct or by the force.
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What statement about subculture is not true?
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subcultures are mutually exclusive, individuals might not participate in more than one subculture
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All of the following are evidence of the tendency to view culture as a process except...
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analysis that attempts to establish boundaries between cultures.
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what does the advent of behavioral modernity refer to?
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when early anatomical modern humans became fully human in behavior ( relying on symbolic thought, elaborating cultural creativity ) as well as in anatomy
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Many human traits reflect the fact that our primate ancestors lived in trees. These traits include all of the following except...
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echo location made possible by overlapping visual fields.
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Why does this chapter on culture include a section that describes similarities and differences between humans and apes, are closed relatives?
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to emphasize cultures evolutionary basis
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The human capacity for culture has an evolutionary basis that extends back at least 2.5 million years. This date corresponds to...
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early toolmakers whose products survive in the archaeological record.
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Culture can be adaptive or maladaptive. It is maladaptive when...
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culture traits, patterns, and inventions threaten the groups continue existence survival and reproduction.
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People have to eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how. This is an example of how...
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culture takes the natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express then in particular ways.
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People in the United States sometimes have trouble understanding the power of culture because of the value that American culture places on the idea of the individual.
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yet in American culture... individualism itself is a distinctive shared value, a feature of culture.
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What does anthropologist mean when they say culture is shared
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culture is an attribute of individuals as members of groups
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what is term for a sign that has no necessary o natural connection to thing to which it stands?
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symbol
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Anthropologist Clifford Gertz definition culture on ideas based on cultural learning and symbols. For anthropologist Leslie White, culture originated when our ancestors acquired the ability to use symbols. What is a symbol?
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It is something verbal or nonverbal, within a particular language pr culture, that comes to stand for something else.
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Anthropologist agree that cultural learning is uniquely elaborated among human and that all humans have culture. They also accept a doctrine named in the 19th Century as the "psychic unity" of man. What does this doctrine mean?
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although individuals differ in there emotional and intellectual capacities, all humans population have equivalent capacities for culture.
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Which of the following statement about enculturation is not true?
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it is the exchange of cultural features that result when two or more groups come into continuous first hand contact.
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Culture???
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is acquired by humans as members of society, through the process of enculturation
