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 in some societies economic activity is embedded in social relationships
B.   that people often conduct economic activities from their beds
C.   that a desire for material gain is embedded in the psyche of all people
D.   certain key trading posts, or enclaves, can be embedded in resource-rich locations
Question #3
Collective ownership of the means of the production is evident in (choose all that apply)
A.   Car pools
B.   When foragers gather together at swimming holes
C.   When clans or lineages own productive resources, such as agricultural plots
D.   When people collect valuable resources, such as gold
Question #4
What occurs as you move toward the more intensive end of the cultivating continuum
A.   increased egalitarianism
B.   increased reliance on swidden cultivation
C.   decreasing marginal returns relative to labor input
D.   increased leisure time
E.   longer fallow periods
Question #5
Market systems of exchange may require
A.   state-level political organizations to guarantee property and provide regulations
B.   foraging capitalists
C.   economic nomadism
D.   open spaces for merchants to set up their booths
Question #6
What are the two forms of pastoralism (Pick all that apply),,
A.   Transmontane
B.   nomadism
C.   Tropical
D.   Lackadaisical
E.   Transhumance
Question #7
A mode of production refers to
A.   Making things with models from the Latin modus
B.   a society in which there is a single most frequent profession or the statistical mode
C.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
D.   a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
B.   requires some form of irrigation
C.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
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.   intensive agriculturalists
C.   pastoralists
D.   horticultural societies

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