Author Question: According to Scheper-Hughes in Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping, mothers living in Alto do ... (Read 13 times)

karlynnae

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According to Scheper-Hughes in Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping, mothers living in Alto do Cruzeiro in northeastern Brazil have been known to actually hasten the death of babies they felt would not survive by failing to feed them properly.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from her own village, we call the arrangement
 
  a. polygyny.
  b. exogamy.
   c. endogamy.
  d. polyandry.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: c



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