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. A society without a head of state is called a(n)

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. Thomas Hobbes was a(n)

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. Age-grades organize

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. Structural power is power that

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. Religious beliefs, kinship patterns, and associations allow acephalous societies to

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. Private and state ownership of land characterizes the

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. Lineage or clan ownership of land and livestock, with little sense of private property, characterizes the

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. If you were to study the ways families in the United States resolve disputes, which kind of anthropology would you be practicing?

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There are some societies that do not live under the control of a nation-state.

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. An anthropologist using action theory would be most likely to do what kind of fieldwork?

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. Which cultural group does not have a centralized political system?

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. What are the processes by which people create, compete, and use power to attain goals that are presumed to be for the good of the community?

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. Which of the following is not included in Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service's sociopolitical typology?

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. How does an Amazon headman derive his power?

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. What is not true of nation-states?

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