Anthropology 150 - The Human Adventure » Spring 2020 » Quiz 8

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Question #1
In Big Man societies the motivation for sponsorship of festivals and feasts may be
A.   to charge admission and make a profit
B.   to receive tribute
C.   to get fat
D.   to give away everything in order to gain prestige
Question #2
George Dalton and Karl Polanyi both spoke of the embedded economy This term indicates
A.   that people often conduct economic activities from their beds
B.   that in some societies economic activity is embedded in social relationships
C.   certain key trading posts, or enclaves, can be embedded in resource-rich locations
D.   that a desire for material gain is embedded in the psyche of all people
Question #3
Collective ownership of the means of the production is evident in (choose all that apply)
A.   Car pools
B.   When people collect valuable resources, such as gold
C.   When clans or lineages own productive resources, such as agricultural plots
D.   When foragers gather together at swimming holes
Question #4
What occurs as you move toward the more intensive end of the cultivating continuum
A.   longer fallow periods
B.   increased reliance on swidden cultivation
C.   decreasing marginal returns relative to labor input
D.   increased leisure time
E.   increased egalitarianism
Question #5
Market systems of exchange may require
A.   open spaces for merchants to set up their booths
B.   economic nomadism
C.   state-level political organizations to guarantee property and provide regulations
D.   foraging capitalists
Question #6
What are the two forms of pastoralism (Pick all that apply),,
A.   Lackadaisical
B.   Tropical
C.   Transhumance
D.   Transmontane
E.   nomadism
Question #7
A mode of production refers to
A.   a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
B.   Making things with models from the Latin modus
C.   a society in which there is a single most frequent profession or the statistical mode
D.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   cannot support permanent villages
B.   relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
C.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
D.   requires some form of irrigation
E.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.   pastoralists
B.   horticultural societies
C.   foraging societies
D.   intensive agriculturalists

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