What do anthropologists call descent groups based on a claim to a founding ancestor but lacking genealogical documentation?

Which statement best describes anthropology?

What is polygyny?

E. E. Evans-Pritchard conducted fieldwork among the Azande and rebuffed Max Weber’s earlier assertion that science and modernization would lead to the decline of magic. What was a key element of magic that was highlighted by Evans-Pritchard’s work?

What do we call the system of human communication that is based on a set of symbols, such as words, sounds, and gestures?

In his book Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice Bombing in Afghanistan (2017) anthropologist David B. Edwards explores the complicated historical, cultural, and religious frameworks for suicide bombing. How does Edwards explain the presence of suicide bombings in Afghanistan?

In Merced, California the medical community has had to adjust to serving the large Hmong population living there. What is an example of acculturation in this situation?

A Bar Mitzvah or a wedding are both what type of ritual?

An anthropologist writes an ethnography of coal miners in West Virginia purely from their insiders’ point of view. What perspective is the anthropologist using? 

Franz Boas’s is credited as defining which two characteristics of American anthropology?