How did the assumptions of humankind’s cultural past held by Karl Marx differ from those of theorists such as Herbert Spencer, E.B. Tylor, and Lewis Henry Morgan?

Both induction into the U.S. Marine Corps and the vision quest of certain North American Indian societies are examples of

In anthropology, cultural relativism is not a moral position but a methodological one. It states that

The functionalism of Bronislaw Malinowski was based on the following main idea

In the early 20th century, the anthropologist Franz Boas described changes in skull form among the children of Europeans who had emigrated to North America. He found that the reason for these changes could not be explained by genetics. His findings underscore the fact that

 For Franz Boas, as shown in “The Shackles of Tradition,” what was the relationship between culture and environment?

Which of the following is a major difference between Brazilian and U.S. racial taxonomies?

Which of the following statements about the concept of “race” in Brazil is NOT true?

In which of the following categories should the concept of “race” be placed?

Chapter 7 in the Kottak book’s “Focus on Globalization” section discusses economic globalization. Which of the following is an outcome of our 21st-century global economy?