Author Question: Modern foragers are not Stone Age relics, living fossils, lost tribes, or noble savages. Still, to ... (Read 84 times)

EY67 · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Modern foragers are not Stone Age relics, living fossils, lost tribes, or noble savages. Still, to the extent that foraging has been the basis of their subsistence, contemporary and recent hunter-gatherers

A. are the closest we can come to studying true human nature.
B. illustrate links between foraging economies and the emergence of social stratification.
C. suggest that the most basic motive driving human survival is the need for power.
D. can illustrate links between foraging economies and other aspects of society and culture, such as their sociopolitical organization.
E. illustrate the social precursors to hegemony.

Question 2

As an example of how virtually no one is immune from larger political and economic forces, the Yanomami tribal society of Brazil has suffered recent changes as a result of

A. being overrun by the more expansion-minded Nilotic peoples.
B. modern-minded big men amassing so much wealth that people have begun to regard them as chiefs.
C. village raiding among tribal groups.
D. the involvement of NGOs in their internal political affairs.
E. encroachment by gold miners and ranchers.