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 get fat
C.   to receive tribute
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 a desire for material gain is embedded in the psyche of all people
B.   certain key trading posts, or enclaves, can be embedded in resource-rich locations
C.   that people often conduct economic activities from their beds
D.   that in some societies economic activity is embedded in social relationships
Question #3
Collective ownership of the means of the production is evident in (choose all that apply)
A.   When people collect valuable resources, such as gold
B.   Car pools
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.   increased leisure time
B.   decreasing marginal returns relative to labor input
C.   longer fallow periods
D.   increased reliance on swidden cultivation
E.   increased egalitarianism
Question #5
Market systems of exchange may require
A.   foraging capitalists
B.   open spaces for merchants to set up their booths
C.   economic nomadism
D.   state-level political organizations to guarantee property and provide regulations
Question #6
What are the two forms of pastoralism (Pick all that apply),,
A.   Transhumance
B.   Lackadaisical
C.   Transmontane
D.   nomadism
E.   Tropical
Question #7
A mode of production refers to
A.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
B.   a society in which there is a single most frequent profession or the statistical mode
C.   a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
D.   Making things with models from the Latin modus
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
B.   requires some form of irrigation
C.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
D.   relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
E.   cannot support permanent villages
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.   foraging societies
B.   pastoralists
C.   intensive agriculturalists
D.   horticultural societies

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