The Brazilian government agency FUNAI has supported the position of indigenous groups in __________ disputes.
a. language and culture
b. pension
c. territorial
d. compensation
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A __________ is a person who has special gifts to make contact with the spirit world, often in a state of trance.
a. medium
b. faith healer
c. priest
d. prophet
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The Akan of Ghana sometimes use proverbs to do all of the following EXCEPT __________.
a. indirectly give advice
b. make requests
c. criticize other people’s behavior
d. teach ritual dances
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John Chernoff's participation in drumming in Ghana allowed him to __________.
A) document an art form that is likely to disappear
B) make a profit for himself and the community from recordings
C) understand how Ghanaian family life is connected to music
D) gain insight into cultural practices that maintain gender inequality
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By the __________ Navajo blankets were making their way into national trade networks.
a. 1850s
b. 1860s
c. 1880s
d. 1920s
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Luis tells detailed stories, interacts skillfully with other people, and engages in complex artistic activities. According to Sternberg’s theory, Luis displays __________ intelligence.
A) emotional
B) analytical
C) creative
D) practical
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The Indonesian government has privileged the __________ as the ethnic identity presumed to be the national norm.
a. Timorese
b. Burmese
c. Chinese
d. Javanese
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The 1994 genocide in Rwanda can be best understood as __________.
a. a longstanding and traditional rivalry between two ethnic groups
b. an invasion by Burundi designed to unify both portions of the former Belgian colony
c. a conflict over limited food resources during a period of drought induced stress
d. an internal struggle for political power between two post-colonial groups
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One reason that transnational labor migration rarely alleviates poverty in the country of origin is that __________.
a. populations continue to expand much faster than people leave
b. the best educated and most highly skilled segments of society usually migrate
c. labor migrants rarely send money back to their home country
d. there is no relationship between migration and poverty
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In 2008, people from which world region constituted most of the United States’ foreign-born population?
a. Asia
b. Middle East
c. Africa
d. Latin America and Caribbean
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