Author Question: Archaeologists refer to the common set of symbols found in the Midwestern United States between 200 ... (Read 74 times)

RRMR · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Archaeologists refer to the common set of symbols found in the Midwestern United States between 200 BC and AD 400 as the

a. Mississippian Interaction Sphere.
b. Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
c. Midwestern Ceremonial Complex.
d. Magdalenian Symbolic Complex.
e. Hopewell Symbolic Interaction Scheme.

Question 2

Mary Douglas, a symbolic anthropologist, has argued that which of the following explains Near Eastern food taboos such as the prohibition against eating pork?

a. Prohibited animals are those that violate cultural ideas about the order of creation.
b. Any food will be tabooed when the cost of producing it outweighs its value (in calories or nutrients).
c. Animals included in food taboos are always those that do not occur naturally in the geographic region of the taboo; either the animal never lived in the region, or they lived there once and are no extinct.
d. Avoiding certain animals had to do with basic food content, not a continual affirmation of what constitutes God's order in the universe.
e. people of Jewish and Islamic faiths think alike.