Earlier Anthropological Analysis Considered Small-Scale Human Groups in Comparative Isolation

question 22

Multiple Choice

Earlier anthropological analysis considered small-scale human groups in comparative isolation. Anthropologists now understand that in all bands, tribes, and chiefdoms must function how?

• A) as autonomous groups
• B) solely with the permission of the state government
• C) as distinctly homogenous societies
• D) within the influence of the state

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