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Division of sexes in the society on the basis of wealth, power,

status, role and prestige is known as: · Gender stratification · Which term of kinship organization is based on a set of · kin who can trace their ancestry back through known

links?

Lineages

Extended families can be:

Matrilineal or patrilineal Which of the following can be based on lineage and marital ties?

Family · Sixty percent of cultures in the world are: · Unilineal · The Neolithic Revolution stimulated:

All of the given options Transition from food collection to food production was due to

demographic and environmental pressures, it was view of which of

the following?

Archeologists

According to anthropologists, what is the nature of

language?

All of the given options · The standardized set of rules that determine how words · should be combined to make sense to speakers of a · language is known as: · Syntax · Commercialization of food is a distinctive feature of

which of the following?

Industrialists · Which of the following refers to the culturally defined · relationships between individuals who are commonly

thought of as having family ties.

Kinship

Which one of the following provides the sound structure

to a language?

Phonology · Most developed countries and an increasing amount of · developing countries rely on which of the following to

obtain food?

Industry · Which of the following term is associated with the · residence pattern in which married people live in a

separate household?

Neolocal · According to Ethno-linguists, language even shapes · our _______and provides a standardized way to react

to experiences.

Thoughts

Which term of kinship organization refers to the groups

of related clans?

Phratries · According to kinship, consanguineal relations are: · Blood relations · How many categories of crops are usually grown by

horticulturalists?

Three

Pastoralism involves a nomadic or semi-nomadic

lifestyle within _______family based communities.

Small

Wheat, barley, rice, millet, oats and sorghum are the

examples of which category of crops growth?

Seed crops · near the relatives of either the wife or the husband is · known as: · Ambilocal · Enabling inheritance is a useful social function under

which descent system?

Double lineal system

Enabling inheritance is a useful function of which one of

the following descent?

Double

Which language do not have singular and plural nouns?

Navaho · Clan composed of which kind of groups that claim · descent, but they are unable to trace all their

genealogical links?

Unilineal groups · Gender refers to: · Sexual identity based on biological characteristics · Language is considered to have _________ over a

passage of time.

Evolved

Which descent groups are most common around the

world?

Patrilineal descent

Why languages are facing the threat of extinction that

are rarely spoken in the world?

Small number of people who know the language Which of the following is the function of kinship system

that provide social continuity by binding together a

number of generations?

Vertical · The foragers are well off and dubbed as the original · affluent society by anthropologists because (of): · They use remarkable ingenuity in securing their food · near the relatives of the wife’s father is known as: · Matrilocal · According to many anthropological linguists, human · culture could exist beyond a very basic level because · of: · Language · In which of the following kin type, people are related or

categorized through marriage?

Affinial

Which one of the following is an ambivalent system,

which submerges the nuclear family into a larger

kinship group?

Hawaiian · Reciprocal Exchange which is a roughly equal exchange · of gifts between bride and groom families is

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