Culture is more than a set of ideas or patterns of behavior shared by a group of people. It also includes general mechanisms created by people to promote and maintain their core values. The 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage reflects the influence of which of these types of mechanisms?

You attend a friend’s wedding, and at one point you see the father of the groom hand the keys to a new car to the bride. What would you, as an anthropologist, call this?

Christopher Boehm argues that the most economically efficient strategy is

Global forces are expanding rapidly and transforming local communities everywhere. According to the author, people in local communities respond to these global forces by

What is the Minangkabau cultural term utilized that is closest to the ‘tomboi’ gender identity? (Blackwood)

Match the following forms of political organization with their definitions and/or characteristics (most answers will be used more than once)

In Japan, births are seen as a normal, natural, and physiological process that should involve little to no interventions. Compared to Brazil and the United States, this view fits more with the ________ model of childbirth.

What happened to a research subject from Sao Paulo when she had an ovarian cyst removed? (Scheper-Hughes)

Programs like Human Terrain Systems Program and the Minerva Initiative offer funding to anthropologists whose work can benefit defense planning. Many anthropologists see this as a problem for the discipline. What do they find problematic?

The dual categorization of sexuality as either homosexual or heterosexual comes from