Reference no: EM13990439

Explain why its true or false 

Question 1

1. Bodley: Ecocide is bad for nature, but it helps people.

   True

   False

Question 2

1. Goldstein: Fraternal polygyny (brothers sharing a wife) is more common among landholding than landless families in Tibet.

   True

   False

Question 3

1. Goldstein: Fraternal polyandry is the practice of multiple brothers being married to the same woman at the same time.

   True

   False

question 4

1. Goldstein: Since arable land is so rare in Tibet, and monogamy produces more children per generation than polyandry, fraternal polyandry allows a family's patrimony to be preserved intact rather than divided when inherited.

   True

   False

Question 5

1. Wright: The burials of 100 young women have been explained in terms of a devastating epidemic that caused Cahokia's civilization to collapse.

   True

   False

Question 6

1. Bodley: Development to raise "standard of living," defined as consuming more, relying on cash and long-distance trade rather than subsistence, carries a cost of new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and environmental damage.

   True

   False

Question 7

1. Wright: Monk's mound is the biggest stone pyramid in North America, larger even than the Egyptian pyramids at Giza.

   True

   False

Question 8

1. Bodley: The author argues that tribal people's economies tend to be relatively sustainable.

   True

   False

Question 9

1. Bodley: Anthropology recognizes that "standard of living" is an appropriate universal measure of progress.

   True

   False

Question 10

1. Wright: Scholars agree that at its height a thousand years ago, the city of Cahokia had a population of 50,000 people suppported by the rich agricultural land in the area.

   True

   False