Anthroplogy questions. choose one best answer. 1. English is considered an \"iso

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Anthroplogy questions. choose one best answer.

1. English is considered an "isolating" language. This means that

A. English has very few words that combine ideas.

B. English chooses one word for one idea and strictly resists change.

2. Paul Shankman tested the hypotheses of Lévi-Strauss, and called them into question, by studying

A. The culinary triangle

B. Semantic domains

C. Cannibalism or anthropophagy

D. None of the above

3. The existence of a large number of words about a particular topic is a strong indication of

A. cultrual focus

B. ethnocentrism

C. linguistic relativism

D. idiosyncrasy

Explanation / Answer

1.A English has very few words that combines ideas because english has few morpheme(smallest units of meaning in a sentence) per word ration.

2.C.Cannibalism. Shankman studied Levi Strauss's analysis(in his paper called The Culinary Traingle)of cooking as a language which reveals the concealed structure and its opposition in the society. Cannibalism, that employs mutilple modes of cooking, was studied by Shankman to reveal the oppositions in structure of the society.

3.B.Ethnocentrism.

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