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 give away everything in order to gain prestige
B.   to receive tribute
C.   to charge admission and make a profit
D.   to get fat
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 foragers gather together at swimming holes
B.   When people collect valuable resources, such as gold
C.   Car pools
D.   When clans or lineages own productive resources, such as agricultural plots
Question #4
What occurs as you move toward the more intensive end of the cultivating continuum
A.   increased egalitarianism
B.   longer fallow periods
C.   decreasing marginal returns relative to labor input
D.   increased leisure time
E.   increased reliance on swidden cultivation
Question #5
Market systems of exchange may require
A.   state-level political organizations to guarantee property and provide regulations
B.   open spaces for merchants to set up their booths
C.   economic nomadism
D.   foraging capitalists
Question #6
What are the two forms of pastoralism (Pick all that apply),,
A.   Lackadaisical
B.   Tropical
C.   nomadism
D.   Transhumance
E.   Transmontane
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.   a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
D.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
B.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
C.   relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
D.   requires some form of irrigation
E.   cannot support permanent villages
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.   intensive agriculturalists
B.   horticultural societies
C.   foraging societies
D.   pastoralists

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