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  Flashcards by Jenii

Question 1 

Which of the following statements about kinship is incorrect?
 
  a. Kinship terminology systems vary considerably across cultures.
 b. Kinship terminology systems reflect the positions individuals occupy within their respective societies.
 c. Factors such as gender and genealogical differences are distinguished but are not emphasized in kinship systems.
  d. Kinship systems are ways of organizing people who are relatives into different kinds of groups.

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Question 2 

Which of the following statements about potlatch is not correct?
 
  a. It is a form of conspicuous consumption.
 b. It was hosted by chiefs who had built up huge displays of surplus.
 c. It was ecologically adaptive in an area of alternating scarcity and abundance.
  d. It was a form of extreme religious economics.

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Question 3 

The Ming dynasty in China was believed to include as many as 20,000 castrated males. When the last ruling emperor of China stepped down in 1912, he had how many eunuchs still?
 
  a. 500
 b. 1,500
 c. 5,000
 d. 15,000

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