Why does your textbook use the term “Mainstream White American English (MWAE)” rather than “standard English”?

__________ give(s) people the capacity to make free and independent decisions.

Helen Ball’s research on infant co-sleeping at the Durham Infancy and Sleep Center used infrared photography and physiological monitoring of families while they slept in their homes and maternity wards. Using the comparative approach, Ball concluded that

__________ refers to the voluntary actions that people do to help others, even at possible costs to themselves.

Ideas get picked up and moved around, especially through social media, where content is endlessly available. When ideas get moved around through language, this is called

Which of the following best describes an egalitarian society?

Icons, indexes, and symbols are three kinds of __________ that we encounter daily.

To create meaning and signal it to others, we __________ language. To take meaning from what others signal, we __________ the signs language carries.

Nancy Levine is a cultural anthropologist who studied family arrangements in Tibetan villages where people managed limited land in high-altitude valleys. What was the most common marriage pattern she found during her research?

Dawnie Wolf Steadman provides forensic information to police, legal, and other justice organizations so they can assess whether the death was due to murder or establish evidence of war crimes. What kind of anthropology is this?