States MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions) PDF Download - 30

According to anthropology a society which was productive horticulture, pastoral, nomadic and agriculture is known as

1. Tribe
2. State
3. Band
4. Chiefdom

Archaeological anthropologists traditionally study all of the following, except

1. Trash
2. Fragments of pottery
3. Plant remains
4. Human tissue

Constructivists argue that

1. Scientific enquiry can uncover absolute truths
2. Material forces are much more important than ideas
3. Individuals are powerless to shape the world as they find it
4. The 'truth' is always socially constructed

In Emily Ahern's ethnographic description of the medical system of the Taiwanese Hokkien, the yin part of the body

1. Is visible to the living
2. Exists in the underworld in the shape of a house and tree
3. Exists in the underworld in a house and a tree
4. Has hot and cold properties

According to anthropologists the institution in which a man marries the widowed wife of a male kinsman especially a brother is

1. Sororate
2. Polygyny
3. Ghost marriage
4. levirate