What does it mean to take a holistic perspective?
a. To seek comparisons between cultures in order to understand what is universal in human thought and behavior
b. To examine culture as a whole and how various parts are related, without examining behavior as if it were a
biological instinct
c. To seek interconnections and relatedness between various parts of human culture and biology
d. To approach culture as a uniquely human practice that is the same everywhere and is thus studied as if it were
a whole
e. To view culture as changing and whole, but not subject to analysis and experiment
Question 2
Anthropology is the:
a. study of Western culture primarily through the analysis of its folklore.
b. study of humankind everywhere, throughout time.
c. study of nonhuman primates through an analysis of their myth and folklore.
d. study of the species Homo sapiens by analyzing its cultural but not its biological dimensions.
e. analysis of humankind from the subjective perspective of one group.
Evolutionary ecologists live and do research in contemporary cultures that maintain all or some aspe
Linear Perspective
Newborn Experiences Across Cultures
Newborn Experiences Across Cultures
Comparisons of gene and genome organization