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 give away everything in order to gain prestige
C.   to receive tribute
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.   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 people often conduct economic activities from their beds
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 foragers gather together at swimming holes
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.   longer fallow periods
B.   increased egalitarianism
C.   decreasing marginal returns relative to labor input
D.   increased reliance on swidden cultivation
E.   increased leisure time
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.   Transmontane
B.   Transhumance
C.   Tropical
D.   Lackadaisical
E.   nomadism
Question #7
A mode of production refers to
A.   a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
B.   a society in which there is a single most frequent profession or the statistical mode
C.   Making things with models from the Latin modus
D.   getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.   requires some form of irrigation
B.   cannot support permanent villages
C.   relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
D.   requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
E.   is typically associated with use of draft animals
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.   foraging societies
B.   intensive agriculturalists
C.   horticultural societies
D.   pastoralists

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