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cdr_15

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Which of the following statements about death and social status is not true?
 
  a. Social ties existed between the living and the dead and the ceremonial connections at death reflect these social relations.
  b. Mortuary remains are one important source of information on extinct political systems.
  c. Ethnographic data show that societies that have important social distinctions among the living also have material distinctions among the dead.
  d. Ethnographic data show that societies that have important social distinctions among the living never have material distinctions among the dead.
  e. egalitarian and ranked define social statuses that can be inferred from analyses of material culture.

Question 2

A person having rights, duties, or obligations by virtue of his or her parentage lives in a culture with
 
  a. achieved status.
  b. ascribed status.
  c. egalitarian status.
  d. patrilineal status.
  e. matrilineal status.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b



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