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 receive tribute
B.   to get fat
C.   to charge admission and make a profit
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 a desire for material gain is embedded in the psyche of all people
C.   certain key trading posts, or enclaves, can be embedded in resource-rich locations
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.   When foragers gather together at swimming holes
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.   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.   nomadism
B.   Transmontane
C.   Transhumance
D.   Lackadaisical
E.   Tropical
Question #7
A mode of production refers to
A.   Making things with models from the Latin modus
B.   a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
C.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
D.   a society in which there is a single most frequent profession or the statistical mode
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   cannot support permanent villages
B.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
C.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
D.   relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
E.   requires some form of irrigation
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.   pastoralists
B.   intensive agriculturalists
C.   horticultural societies
D.   foraging societies

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